This book examines the idea of 'parental responsibility' in English law and what is expected of a...

This book uses a wide range of primary sources - legal, literary and demographic - to provide a r...

Cohabiting couples and those entering religious-only marriages all too often end up with inadequa...

Bringing together experts from a wide variety of legal disciplines to comment on the way in which...

This textbook is an ambitious and engaging introduction to the more advanced writings on family l...

This book brings a modern critical approach to bear on the broad range of subjects that used to c...

This book has three key aims: first, to show how the legal treatment of cohabiting couples has ch...

This book has three key aims: first, to show how the legal treatment of cohabiting couples has ch...

Analyses marriage law's development since 1836--its complexity, failures to respond to societal c...

The Marriage Act 1836 established the foundations of modern marriage law, allowing couples to mar...

Law and Society in England 1750-1950 is an indispensable text for those wishing to study English ...

This fully revised and updated new edition covers recent statutory developments and explores the ...

Moffat's Trusts Law combines authoritative commentary with a unique contextual analysis. Leading ...

The period of the Enlightenment was marked by innovation in political, cultural, religious, and e...

Brought up in the stately grandeur of Burghley House as heir to the earldom of Exeter, Henry Ceci...

The laws which govern the marriages of the British royal family have led to heartbreak, farce and...

How should we interpret our ancestors' decisions to marry in a particular form or place, or at a ...

Most of our ancestors were wed only once, and after the death of a spouse did not remarry. Yet ev...

'Catherine Exley was born in Leeds in 1779. Aged thirty, she boarded a ship and sailed for Portug...

This book draws on the accounts of 170 individuals who had, or led, a wedding ceremony outside th...

The period of the Enlightenment was marked by innovation in political, cultural, religious, and e...

Shaping the Law of Obligations presents a collection of essays in honour of Ewan McKendrick KC, d...