Marital Breakdown: Separation and the Coming of Judicial Divorce
Marital Breakdown: Separation and the Coming of Judicial Divorce
This chapter on marital breakdown in the 19th century begins with a discussion of the decree of divorce a mensa, which had become one preliminary step in the exceptional business of obtaining a full divorce by Act of Parliament. It then discusses separation by agreement, information arrangements to separate, the Poor Law and desertion, full divorce by private act of Parliament, judicial divorce, and violence and desertion among ordinary people.
Keywords: English law, marriage, separation, divorce
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