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The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation

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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 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.

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ISBN: 9781107536302
Publication date: 2nd July 2015
Author: Rebecca (University of Warwick) Probert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 300 pages
Series: Law in Context
Genres: Family law: cohabitation
Legal history