The changing legal regulation of cohabitation : from fornicators to family, 1600-2010 / Rebecca Probert.

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"This book has three key aims: first, to show how the legal treatment of cohabiting couples has changed over the past four centuries, from punishment as fornicators in the seventeenth century to eventual acceptance as family in the late twentieth; second, to chart how the language used to refer to c...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Law in context.
Main Author: Probert, Rebecca
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:Law in context.
Subjects:
Unmarried couples > Legal status, laws, etc. > England > History.
Fornication > England > History.
Unmarried couples > Social aspects > England.
LAW / Family Law / General.
Physical Description:xii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
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