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  2. Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 - Wikipedia

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    The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.The Act reformed the law on divorce, moving litigation from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts to the civil courts, establishing a model of marriage based on contract rather than sacrament and widening the availability of divorce beyond those who could afford to bring proceedings ...

  3. Matrimonial Causes Act - Wikipedia

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    The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973; The Matrimonial Causes Acts 1857 to 1878 was the collective title of the following Acts: [1] The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85) The Matrimonial Causes Act 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 108) The Matrimonial Causes Act 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 61) The Matrimonial Causes Act 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 144 ...

  4. Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes - Wikipedia

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    In the history of the courts of England and Wales, the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes was created by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857, which transferred the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts in matters matrimonial to the new court so created.

  5. Married Women's Property Acts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Married Women's Property Act was enacted on April 7, 1848, as part of a more general movement, underway since the 1820s, away from common law traditions in favor of the codification of law. Ernestine Rose had been campaigning for such a statute since 1836, later joined by Paulina Wright Davis and Elizabeth Cady Stanton . [ 15 ]

  6. Divorce in England and Wales - Wikipedia

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    The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 moved litigation from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts to the civil courts, establishing a model of marriage based on contract rather than sacrament and widening the availability of divorce beyond those who could afford to bring proceedings for annulment or to promote a private Bill.

  7. Matrimonial Causes Act 1937 - Wikipedia

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    The Matrimonial Causes Act 1937 (1 Edw. 8. & 1 Geo. 6. c. 57) is a law on divorce in the United Kingdom. It extended the grounds for divorce, which until then only included adultery, to include unlawful desertion for three years or more, cruelty, and incurable insanity, incest or sodomy. [2]

  8. Court of Probate - Wikipedia

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    The Judge of the Court of Probate also presided over the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, but the two courts remained separate entities. On 1 November 1875, under the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873 and the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1875 , the Judge of the Court of Probate was transferred, as its President , to the Probate ...

  9. Divorce Reform Act 1969 - Wikipedia

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    The law built on the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857, which allowed people to divorce without an Act of Parliament where there had been adultery and cruelty, rape, bestiality or incest, and the Matrimonial Causes Act 1937, which extended the eligible grounds for divorce to include cruelty, incurable insanity and desertion (of three years or more). [4]