Divorce and Divorce Legislation
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ISBN13: 9780217201544
Paperback|9780217201544
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. LAW OF DIVORCE IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE, AND IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. In the last chapter we attempted to set forth and explain the declaration of Christ and of the Apostle to the Gentiles on the subject of divorce. Our present object.is to give a compendious view of the law of divorce in the Roman empire down to the time of Justinian, and of Christian opinion until it became the canonical law of the Catholic Church. In the first chapter of the present essay we were not able to do much more than to allude to the legislation of Augustus, by which an effort was made to check some of the leading social evils of Rome, and which remained on the whole, ever afterward, the groundwork of Roman legislation respecting marriage. The emperor and his advisers were, without doubt, alarmed by the wide-spread violations of the rights of marriage, but to improve morals was not the only end they had in view. Population was beginning to decline; young men and old were averse to- the marriage state, rather choosing tokeep mistresses than to be encumbered with the expensive cares, and tried by the vexations of a family; and persons of the higher ranks preferred in some instances to marry freed women rather than the proud and costly descendants of the aristocracy. Hence it was enacted in these Julian laws that an unmarried man between twenty and sixty, and an unmarried woman or widow under fifty, should be debarred from sharing in inheritances or legacies, except where the testator was a very near relative. And, on the other hand, married men, especially those who had three children, enjoyed special privileges and honors. They had better seats than others at the public shows, they had advantages in obtaining office, and took precedence of their colleagues who had no such merit; they w...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217201544 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217201547 |
| Weight | 0.56 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 166 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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