When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrimonial_Causes_Act_1857

    The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.The Act reformed the law on divorce, moving litigation from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts to the civil courts, establishing a model of marriage based on contract rather than sacrament and widening the availability of divorce beyond those who could afford to bring proceedings ...

  3. Matrimonial Causes Act - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrimonial_Causes_Act

    The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973; The Matrimonial Causes Acts 1857 to 1878 was the collective title of the following Acts: [1] The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85) The Matrimonial Causes Act 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 108) The Matrimonial Causes Act 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 61) The Matrimonial Causes Act 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 144 ...

  4. Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_for_Divorce_and...

    Robert Albion Pritchard, W Tarn Pritchard and John George Witt. A Digest of the Law and Practice of the Court for Divorce & Matrimonial Causes, and Appeals from that Court. Third Edition. Shaw and Sons. London. 1874. Google Books. George Browne. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes. 1864.

  5. Divorce in England and Wales - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce_in_England_and_Wales

    The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 moved litigation from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts to the civil courts, establishing a model of marriage based on contract rather than sacrament and widening the availability of divorce beyond those who could afford to bring proceedings for annulment or to promote a private Bill.

  6. Adultery in English law - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adultery_in_English_law

    The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 moved litigation from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts to the civil courts, establishing a model of marriage based on contract rather than sacrament and widening the availability of divorce beyond those who could afford to bring proceedings for annulment or to promote a private Bill. The Act did not ...

  7. Court of Probate - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Probate

    The Judge of the Court of Probate also presided over the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, but the two courts remained separate entities. On 1 November 1875, under the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873 and the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1875 , the Judge of the Court of Probate was transferred, as its President , to the Probate ...

  8. AOL Mail

    mail.aol.com

    Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!

  9. Barbara Bodichon - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Bodichon

    In 1869, she wrote a Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Laws of England Concerning Women which helped pass Married Women's Property Act 1870. [4] Bodichon was a Unitarian, who wrote of Theodore Parker: "He prayed to the Creator, the infinite Mother of us all (always using Mother instead of Father in this prayer). It was the prayer of all I ...