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Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century. UNAUTHORIZED
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I. The preference of marriage to a single life -- II. The arguments for and against a plurality of wives and concubines -- III. The authority of parents and governors, in regulating or restraining marriages -- IV. The power of husbands and the privileges of wives -- V. The nature of divorce, and in what cases it is allowable -- VI. The reasons of prohibiting marriage within certain degrees -- VII. The manner of contracting Espousais, and what engagements and promises of marriage are binding -- VIII. The penalties incurred by forcible and clandestine marriages, and the consequences attending marriage solemnized by the dissenters. |
| General note | Attributed to Thomas Salmon. |
| General note | Reproduction of the originals from Kinsey Institute. |
| General note | Scanned copy imperfect: some pages weak or faded print. |
