Bigamy

Author : Mary Turner Thomson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780572727

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The Bigamist by Mary Turner Thomson Pdf

In April 2006, Mary Turner Thomson received a call that blew her life apart. The woman on the other end of the line told her that Will Jordan, Mary's husband and the father of her two younger children, had been married to her for fourteen years and they had five children together. The Bigamist is the shocking true story of how one man manipulated an intelligent, independent woman, conning her out of £200,000 and leaving her to bring up the children he claimed he could never have. It's a story we all think could never happen to us, but this shameless con man has been doing the same thing to various other women for at least 27 years, spinning a tangled web of lies and deceit to cover his tracks. How far would you go to help the man you love? How far would he go to deceive you? And what would you do when you found out it was all a lie?

Author : Maia McAleavey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107103160

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The Bigamy Plot by Maia McAleavey Pdf

This study explores the prevalence of bigamy in Victorian fiction to challenge traditional understanding of the period's social and narrative conventions.

Author : Sara McDougall
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812206548

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Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late Medieval Champagne by Sara McDougall Pdf

The institution of marriage is commonly thought to have fallen into crisis in late medieval northern France. While prior scholarship has identified the pervasiveness of clandestine marriage as the cause, Sara McDougall contends that the pressure came overwhelmingly from the prevalence of remarriage in violation of the Christian ban on divorce, a practice we might call "bigamy." Throughout the fifteenth century in Christian Europe, husbands and wives married to absent or distant spouses found new spouses to wed. In the church courts of northern France, many of the individuals so married were criminally prosecuted. In Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late Medieval Champagne, McDougall traces the history of this conflict in the diocese of Troyes and places it in the larger context of Christian theology and culture. Multiple marriage was both inevitable and repugnant in a Christian world that forbade divorce and associated bigamy with the unchristian practices of Islam or Judaism. The prevalence of bigamy might seem to suggest a failure of Christianization in late medieval northern France, but careful study of the sources shows otherwise: Clergy and laity alike valued marriage highly. Indeed, some members of the laity placed such a high value on the institution that they were willing to risk criminal punishment by entering into illegal remarriage. The risk was great: the Bishop of Troyes's judicial court prosecuted bigamy with unprecedented severity, although this prosecution broke down along gender lines. The court treated male bigamy, and only male bigamy, as a grave crime, while female bigamy was almost completely excluded from harsh punishment. As this suggests, the Church was primarily concerned with imposing a high standard on men as heads of Christian households, responsible for their own behavior and also that of their wives.

Author : John Benson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000688931

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Respectability, Bankruptcy and Bigamy in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain by John Benson Pdf

Respectability, Bankruptcy and Bigamy in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Britain explores the vexed question of middle-class respectability in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. It focuses upon the life of London solicitor Hamilton Pawley (1860–1936), who was barred from working by the Law Society, twice declared bankrupt, and in 1919 was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment with hard labour for bigamously marrying a woman practically forty years his junior. If Pawley did not suffer the revenge of respectable society, it is difficult to think who would. Drawing upon the fact that the disgraced and the disreputable have always tended to attract a disproportionate amount of attention, the book ranges widely, exploring such important issues as middle-class education, career choices, the dynamics of family life, and the workings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century legal system. It shows that Pawley was able to hold on to his professional – and even gentlemanly – status for far longer than seemed likely. This all suggests, the book concludes, that although respectability was as important to the middle class as we have always been told, it was both easier to acquire and easier to retain than we have generally been led to believe. This book will appeal to all those interested in British society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author : Alexandra Parma Cook,Noble David Cook
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0822312220

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Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance by Alexandra Parma Cook,Noble David Cook Pdf

Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance uncovers from history the fascinating and strange story of Spanish explorer Francisco Noguerol de Ulloa. in 1556, accompanied by his second wife, Francisco returned to his home in Spain after a profitable twenty-year sojourn in the new world of Peru. However, unlike most other rich conquistadores who returned to the land of their birth, Francisco was not allowed to settle into a life of leisure. Instead, he was charged with bigamy and illegal shipment of silver, was arrested and imprisoned. Francisco's first wife (thought long dead) had filed suit in Spain against her renegade husband. So begins the labyrinthine legal tale and engrossing drama of an explorer and his two wives, skillfully reconstructed through the expert and original archival research of Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook. Drawing on the remarkable records from the trial, the narrative of Francisco's adventures provides a window into daily life in sixteenth-century Spain, as well as the mentalité and experience of conquest and settlement of the New World. Told from the point of view of the conquerors, Francisco's story reveals not only the lives of the middle class and minor nobility but also much about those at the lower rungs of the social order and relations between the sexes. In the tradition of Carlo Ginzberg's The Cheese and the Worms and Natalie Zemon Davis' The Return of Martin Guerre, Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance illuminates an historical period--the world of sixteenth-century Spain and Peru--through the wonderful and unusual story of one man and his two wives.

Author : Richard E. Boyer
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0826323847

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Lives of the Bigamists by Richard E. Boyer Pdf

Boyer lets these Mexican people speak for themselves about how they got into trouble with the Inquisition.

Author : J. Cezar S. Sangco
Publisher : Goodwill Trading Co., Inc.
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Law
ISBN : 9711109530

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Philippine Law on Torts and Damages by J. Cezar S. Sangco Pdf

Author : Katie Barclay,Jeffrey Meek,Andrea Thomson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000734027

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Courtship, Marriage and Marriage Breakdown by Katie Barclay,Jeffrey Meek,Andrea Thomson Pdf

This book explores the history of marriage and marriage-like relationships across five continents from the seventeenth century to the present day. Across fourteen chapters, leading marriage scholars examine how the methodologies from the new history of emotions contribute to our understanding of marriage, seeking to uncover not only personal feeling but also the political and social implications of emotion. They highlight how marriage as an institution has been shaped not just by law and society but also by individual and community choices, desires and emotional values. Importantly, they also emphasize how the history of non-traditional and same-sex relationships and their emotions have long played an important role in determining the nature of marriage as an institution and emotional union. In doing so, this collection allows us to rethink both the past and present of marriage, destabilizing a story of a stable institution and opening it up as a site of contest, debate and feeling.

Author : Catherine Ostler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982179755

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The Duchess Countess by Catherine Ostler Pdf

Discover the adventurous life of the stylish and scandalous Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston—a woman whose infamous trial was bigger news in British society than the American War of Independence. “Bridgerton fans take note: For sheer incident and drama, Chudleigh’s story rivals any episode of the popular Regency-era Netflix series. And it’s all true” (The Washington Post). As maid of honor to the Princess of Wales, Elizabeth Chudleigh enjoyed a luxurious life in the inner circle of the Hanoverian court. With her extraordinary style and engaging wit, she both delighted and scandalized the press and public. She would later even inspire William Thackeray when he was writing his classic Vanity Fair, providing the inspiration for the alluring social climber Becky Sharp. But Elizabeth’s real story is more complex and surprising than anything out of fiction. A clandestine, candlelit wedding to the young heir to an earldom, a second marriage to a duke, a lust for diamonds, and an electrifying appearance at a masquerade ball in a gossamer dress—it’s no wonder that Elizabeth’s eventual trial was a sensation. Charged with bigamy, an accusation she vehemently fought against, Elizabeth refused to submit to public humiliation and retire quietly. “A superb, gripping, decadent, colorful biography that brings an extraordinary woman and a whole world blazingly to life” (Simon Sebag Montefiore, New York Times bestselling author), The Duchess Countess is perfect for fans of Bridgerton, Women of Means, and The Crown.

Author : Law Reform Commission of Canada
Publisher : La Commission
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Bigamy
ISBN : UCAL:B4176235

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Bigamy by Law Reform Commission of Canada Pdf

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Author : United States. Department of Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Aliens
ISBN : UOM:39015047779494

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Administrative Decisions Under Immigration & Nationality Laws by United States. Department of Justice Pdf

Author : John Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Law
ISBN : MINN:31951D03262048F

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Green's Encyclopaedia of the Law of Scotland by John Chisholm Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UCAL:B4435945

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Weekly Notes of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the County Courts of Philadelphia, and the United States District and Circuit Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2374 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : CORNELL:31924066056056

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Century Edition of The American Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : SRLF:AA0008208621

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Defences to Crime by Anonim Pdf