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Law and the Family in Ireland, 1800-1950
Niamh Howlin
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This multi-disciplinary study considers the intersection between law and family life in Ireland from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Setting the law in its wider social historical context it traces marriage from its formation through to its breakdown. It considers the impact of the law on such issues as adultery, divorce, broken engagements, marriage settlements, pregnancy, adoption, property, domestic violence, concealment of birth and inter-family homicide, as well as the historical origins of the Constitutional protection of the family. An underlying theme is the way in which the law of the family in Ireland differed from the law ... Read more
This multi-disciplinary study considers the intersection between law and family life in Ireland from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Setting the law in its wider social historical context it traces marriage from its formation through to its breakdown. It considers the impact of the law on such issues as adultery, divorce, broken engagements, marriage settlements, pregnancy, adoption, property, domestic violence, concealment of birth and inter-family homicide, as well as the historical origins of the Constitutional protection of the family. An underlying theme is the way in which the law of the family in Ireland differed from the law ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Palgrave Modern Legal History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137606358
SKU
V9781137606358
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About Niamh Howlin
Niamh Howlin is a Lecturer at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, Ireland Kevin Costello is a Senior Lecturer at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, Ireland
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