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[Review] Tying the Knot: The Formation of Marriage 1836–2020 Rebecca Probert Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2021, xii + 283 pp (hardback £85), ISBN: 978-1-316-51828-1

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posted on 2023-06-10, 04:47 authored by Teresa SuttonTeresa Sutton
Readers of this Journal will already be familiar with Professor Rebecca Probert's recent work, from her paper at the Ecclesiastical Law Society's ‘Solemnization of matrimony: past, present and future’ day conference in 2021 and her subsequent article, ‘Getting married: the origins of the current law and its problems’.Footnote3 Probert is the leading scholar on the history of marriage and family law and her previous significant works include Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century and The Changing Legislation of Cohabitation.Footnote4 She is also a specialist consultant to the Law Commission on their current Weddings Project. The commission's final report and recommendations for reform of the law on how and where couples can get married is expected this summer. The commission's consultation paper observed that the current law ‘restricts how couples are permitted to celebrate their weddings, for historical rather than current policy reasons’.Footnote5 Understandably, that consultation paper did not devote significant space to analysis of the legal history of weddings. Tying the Knot: the formation of marriage 1836–2020 undertakes that important task admirably.

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  • Published

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Ecclesiastical Law Journal

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0956-618X

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Cambridge University Press (CUP)

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3

Volume

24

Page range

392-394

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  • Law Publications

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2022-09-21

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