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001 2012016084
003 DLC
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008 120418s2012 enk 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012016084
020 $a9781107020849 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae-uk-en
050 00 $aKD771$b.P78 2012
082 00 $a346.4201/6$223
084 $aLAW038000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aProbert, Rebecca.
245 14 $aThe changing legal regulation of cohabitation :$bfrom fornicators to family, 1600-2010 /$cRebecca Probert.
260 $aCambridge [UK] ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2012.
263 $a1208
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aLaw in context
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $a"This book has three key aims: first, to show how the legal treatment of cohabiting couples has changed over the past four centuries, from punishment as fornicators in the seventeenth century to eventual acceptance as family in the late twentieth; second, to chart how the language used to refer to cohabitation has changed over time and how different terms influenced policy debates and public perceptions; and, third, to estimate the extent of cohabitation in earlier centuries. To achieve this it draws on hundreds of reported and unreported cases as well as legislation, policy papers and debates in Parliament; thousands of newspaper reports and magazine articles; and innovative cohort studies that provide new and more reliable evidence as to the incidence (or rather the rarity) of cohabitation in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. It concludes with a consideration of the relationship between legal regulation and social trends"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Fornicators: the punishment of illicit sex; 3. No name: law, morality and precedent; 4. Unmarried wives in war and peace; 5. Living in sin: concerns and changes; 6. 'Stable illicit unions': cohabitation and the reform of divorce law; 7. Common-law wives: the 1970s and the creation of a myth; 8. Live-in lovers: trying to get back to basics; 9. Partners: New Labour and neutrality; 10. Conclusion.
650 0 $aUnmarried couples$xLegal status, laws, etc.$zEngland$xHistory.
650 0 $aFornication$zEngland$xHistory.
650 0 $aUnmarried couples$xSocial aspects$zEngland.
650 7 $aLAW / Family Law / General.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/20849/cover/9781107020849.jpg