A critical essay concerning marriage : shewing, 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 espousals, and what engagements and promises of marriage are binding : VIII. The penalties incurred by forcible and clandestine marriages and the consequences attending marriages solemnized by the Dissenters : to which is added, an historical account of the marriage rites and ceremonies of the Greeks and Romans and our Saxon ancestors and of most nations of the world at this day / by a Gentleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marriage--Early works to 1800.

Marriage.

Marriage customs and rites--Early works to 1800.

Marriage customs and rites.

Married women--Legal status, laws, etc--Early works to 1800.

Married women.

Polygamy--Early works to 1800.

Polygamy.

Divorce--Early works to 1800.

Divorce.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([20], 310 [i.e. 343], [5] p. )

Other Title:

Critical essay concerning marriage

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Charles Rivington, 1724.

Notes:

Text concludes on p. 341. Pages 342-343 are numbered 109 and 310; at head of p. 109 [i.e. 342]: This should have come under the head of Concubines, p. 108.

Sabin no. 75821.

Cited in:

RLIN, CTRG04-B201

OCLC:

85800348