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Wives for Sale - Samuel Pyeatt Menefee
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- Etalase: IMPORT - Political Social Books
Wives for Sale: An Ethnographic Study of British Popular Divorce - Samuel Pyeatt Menefee (1st Published 1981 by St. Martin's Press)
IDR. 1.000.000
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Genre : Social History
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Summary
Addressing a bigamous and indigent hawker in the middle of the last century, Justice Maule declared:
I will tell you what you ought to have done. ... You should have instructed your attorney to bring an action against the seducer of your wife for damages ... you should have employed a proctor and instituted a suit in the Ecclesiastical Courts. ... When you had obtained a divorce a mensa et thoro, you had only to obtain a private Act for divorce a vinculo matrimonii ... and altogether these proceedings would cost you £1000. You will probably tell me that you never had a tenth of that sum, but that makes no difference. Sitting here as an English judge it is my duty to tell you that this is not a country in which there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. You will be imprisoned for one day.
The judge's ruling was a wry acknowledgement of the dilemma faced by the man in the street, who was normally unable to obtain a divorce sanctioned by Church or State. For centuries such men resorted to informal means of slipping the knot of matrimony, one of which was selling a wife in the open market. Wives for Sale is a fascinating study of this practice, which developed its own traditions, rules and procedures. The author considers the causes and consequences of wife sales and the reactions to the institution of the courts, the press and the public. He draws parallels between wife-selling and other contemporaneous social practices and beliefs and considers the custom as it was reflected in popular culture.
#readythriftboox
IDR. 1.000.000
Kondisi bekas masih sangat baik ex perpus
.
Genre : Social History
.
Summary
Addressing a bigamous and indigent hawker in the middle of the last century, Justice Maule declared:
I will tell you what you ought to have done. ... You should have instructed your attorney to bring an action against the seducer of your wife for damages ... you should have employed a proctor and instituted a suit in the Ecclesiastical Courts. ... When you had obtained a divorce a mensa et thoro, you had only to obtain a private Act for divorce a vinculo matrimonii ... and altogether these proceedings would cost you £1000. You will probably tell me that you never had a tenth of that sum, but that makes no difference. Sitting here as an English judge it is my duty to tell you that this is not a country in which there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. You will be imprisoned for one day.
The judge's ruling was a wry acknowledgement of the dilemma faced by the man in the street, who was normally unable to obtain a divorce sanctioned by Church or State. For centuries such men resorted to informal means of slipping the knot of matrimony, one of which was selling a wife in the open market. Wives for Sale is a fascinating study of this practice, which developed its own traditions, rules and procedures. The author considers the causes and consequences of wife sales and the reactions to the institution of the courts, the press and the public. He draws parallels between wife-selling and other contemporaneous social practices and beliefs and considers the custom as it was reflected in popular culture.
#readythriftboox
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