ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE PATRIARCHAL THEORY II. Criticism of the Theory by Spencer and McLennan m. The Theory in the Light of Recent Research - CHAPTER II. THEORY OF THE HORDE AND MOTHER-RIGHT 1. Bachofen and His Disciples II. Morgan's Constructive Theory III. McLennan's Constructive Theory CHAPTER III. THEORY OF THE ORIGINAL PAIRING 14-17 18-32 IV. The Problem of the Successive Forms of the Family III. The Antiquity of Self-Betrothal or Free Marriage - CHAPTER V. EARLY HISTORY OF DIVORCE MATRIMONIAL INSTITUTIONS IN ENGLAND CHAPTER VI. OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO CHAPTER VII. RISE OF ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE: THE CHURCH ACCEPTS THE LAY CONTRACT AND CEREMONIAL 287-320 1. The Primitive Christian Benediction, the Bride- Mass, and the Celebration ad Ostium Ecclesiae II. The Priest Supersedes the Chosen Guardian, and Sponsalia per Verba de Praesenti Are Valid CHAPTER VIII. RISE OF ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE: THE III. The Evils of the Spiritual Jurisdiction II. As to the Nature of Marriage III. Child-Marriages in the Age of Elizabeth - II. Fleet Marriages and the Hardwicke Act, 1753 - 435-460 460-473 VOLUME TWO PART II-Continued 1. The Magistrate Supersedes the Priest at the Nuptials 125-143 II. Banns, Consent, and Registration п. Optional Civil Marriage and the Rise of Obligatory 239-247 I. The Struggle for Civil Marriage and Free Religious 247-259 260-263 CHAPTER XIV. OPTIONAL CIVIL OR ECCLESIASTICAL MAR- a) Law and Custom in New Netherland b) Law and Custom under the Duke of York c) Law and Custom in the Royal Province II. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware b) Law and Custom in Pennsylvania and Delaware CHAPTER XV. DIVORCE IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES 264-327 267-284 284-296 296-308 - 308-327 308-315 315-327 328-387 a) Massachusetts 330-348 II. English Divorce Laws in Abeyance in the Southern Arbitration and Divorce in the Middle Colonies 366-376 |