A critical essay concerning marriage : 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, author.

Series:

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marriage--Early works to 1800.

Marriage.

Marriage customs and rites--Early works to 1800.

Marriage customs and rites.

Divorce--Early works to 1800.

Divorce.

Polygamy--Early works to 1800.

Polygamy.

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

Married women.

Prenuptial agreements--England--Early works to 1800.

Prenuptial agreements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (20 unnumbered pages, 310 pages, 5 unnumbered pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

The second edition.

Other Title:

Critical essay concerning marriage

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Attributed to Thomas Salmon.

Reproduction of the originals from Kinsey Institute.

OCLC:

1113921883