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Jurković, Ivan. "Family Ties and Written Multilingual Heritage of the Frankapani at the Dawn of the Early Modern Period." Tabula, no. 17 (November 16, 2020): 205–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.32728/tab.17.2020.7.
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In the second half of the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth century the Frankapani of Krk, Senj, and Modruš were at the peak of their power. This family of Croatian counts was networked through marriage from the Adriatic to the Baltic Sea with Italian, Hungarian, Austrian, and German royal and aristocratic families. Their presence in the courts of their next of kin, as well as their in-laws, is therefore not surprising, whether it be the Roman Curia or the Hohenzollern Branderburger Palace in Berlin. In such a wide system of communications, the Frankapani presented themselves to the European public as a multilingual family ready to promulgate not only the written heritage nurtured during the Middle Ages in Croatia (Latin and Glagolitic), but also ready to adopt, promote, and disseminate the written heritage of their spouses (Italian, German, Hungarian). The following examples attest to this statement: the Roman breviary translated into the German language by Christopher Frankapan and his wife Apollonia Lang printed in 1518 in Venice, the anti-Turkish speech in Latin delivered by Christopher’s father, Bernardin, before the German assembly in Nuremberg and printed in 1522 for the occasion, the translated epistles of Saint Paul, from Latin to Hungarian, donated by Catherine Frankapan married to Gabriel (Gábor) Perényi, printed in Krakow in 1533, and the first Croatian- language breviary written in the Latin script, rather than in the Glagolitic, commissioned by Catherine Frankapan married to Nicholas Zrinski, published in 1560 in Padua.
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Prysiazhniuk, Oleksii. "„Royal Commission on Monuments and Landscapes” as a guarantor of the cultural heritage of Belgium." Bulletin of Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, no. 6 (337) (2020): 54–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.12958/2227-2844-2020-6(337)-54-63.
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The „Royal Commission on Monuments and Landscapes” of Belgium was one of the first European institutions to emerge in the 19th century and lay the foundations for the systematic protection of cultural heritage. In fact, it was created by decree of King Leopold I on January 7, 1835. The Royal Commission was set up a few years before the adoption of municipal and provincial laws, which became the backbone of the Belgian democratic and decentralized regime. In 1860, the structure of the Royal Commission changed – committees were established at the provincial level under the chairmanship of the governors. The committees were tasked with gathering information on the ground and overseeing the preservation of monuments or works of art. The Royal Commission was commissioned to make a general inventory of artifacts of art and antiquity belonging to public institutions, the preservation of which is important for the history of art and national archeology. Following the enactment of the Landscape Beauty Act of 1911, a section of landscapes appeared in the Royal Commission, approved by a royal decree of May 29, 1912. Since then, it has received its current name, the Royal Commission on Monuments and Landscapes. Members of the Royal Commission have developed an internal classification of monuments, as well as landscapes and places of most interest to the Kingdom. This practice led to the gradual adoption of the concept of classification, which was first approved in the Law of 7 August 1931 on the Preservation of Monuments and Landscapes. The law of 1931 was the culmination of almost a century of efforts by the Royal Commission. Thanks to him, Belgium has acquired a modern legal arsenal that allows for a real policy on heritage protection. Since then, the Commission has become the most important body for dealing with requests for work with classified objects and the official source of requests for classification proposals.
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Harmat, Ulrike. "Divorce and Remarriage in Austria-Hungary: The Second Marriage of Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf." Austrian History Yearbook 32 (January 2001): 69–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0067237800011176.
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In October 1915, in the middle of World War I, the chief of staff of the Royal and Imperial Army, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, consulted the authorities on a private matter. While “the fatherland was fighting a bloody battle for its very existence, and the army and people were turning to their generals full of alarm,” the general was contemplating marriage. However, Austrian marriage laws stood in the way of his plans. Virginia (Gina) Agujari, Conrad's “chosen one,” had since 1896 been in a Catholic marriage with the industrialist Hans von Reininghaus.
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McPhillips, Kathleen. "Religion after the Royal Commission: Challenges to Religion–State Relations." Religions 11, no. 1 (January 15, 2020): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11010044.
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The findings and recommendations emanating from the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2012–2017) have advised religious organisations that they need to undertake significant changes to legal, governance and cultural/theological practices. The reason for urgency in enacting these changes is that religious organisations were the least child safe institutions across all Australian organisations, with poor practices of transparency, accountability and responsibility coupled with a tendency to protect the reputation of the institution above the safety of children in their care. In Australia, new state laws have been enacted and are impacting on the internal governance systems of religious organisations, including removing the secrecy of the Catholic confessional, instituting mandatory reporting of child abuse by clerics and criminalising the failure to report child sexual abuse. Religious organisations have moved to adopt many of the recommendations regarding their troubled governance including the professionalisation of religious ministry; adoption of professional standards; and appropriate redress for survivors and changes to religious laws. However, these changes signal significant challenges to current church–state relations, which have been characterised by positioning religious organisations as special institutions that enjoy exemptions from certain human rights legislation, on the basis of protecting religious freedom. This article examines and evaluates the nexus between state and religion in Australian public life as it is emerging in a post-Royal Commission environment, and in particular contested claims around the meaning and value of religious freedom versus the necessity of institutional reform to ensure that religious organisations can demonstrate safety for children and other vulnerable groups.
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Miller, Gary M. "Bourbon Social Engineering: Women and Conditions of Marriage in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela." Americas 46, no. 3 (January 1990): 261–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1007014.
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Historians have long debated the relationship between the Spanish Crown and its colonial subjects. The issue has taken on an additional dimension as our knowledge of the lives of women expands. Recently published works describe the statutes promulgated by royal authorities to regulate the institution of marriage. But what was the actual result of these laws once they crossed the Atlantic Ocean? Were they followed to the letter, partially enforced, or ignored? Did they apply to some groups and not to others? In order to answer these and other questions it seemed appropriate to focus upon the laws governing marriage and the effect of their implementation on a specific group of women—the wives of regular army officers who served in Venezuela during the last half of the eighteenth century.
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Olobo-Lalobo, James Henry. "Surrogacy Legislation and Kenya's ART Bill 2019: Reproductive Uhuru (Freedom) A Myth or a Reality for Infertile Citizens?" African Journal of International and Comparative Law 30, no. 1 (February 2022): 99–123. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ajicl.2022.0396.
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In 2014, Kenyan parliamentarian Odhiambo Millie MP tabled the Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Bill [2019] to regulate assisted reproduction. The Bill restricts surrogacy to married couples only, prohibits payment to surrogates and makes no provision for surrogacy services or its oversight. It is modelled on the United Kingdom's surrogacy laws, although this article confirms the UK's surrogacy laws were intended to discourage surrogacy in the first place, and a Law Commission review shall be published in 2022. In 2007, Thiankolu Muthomi called for Kenyan-designed ART legislation. Kenya's customary woman-to-woman marriage is examined as a taking-off point for technologising Kenya's surrogacy services. The woman-to-woman marriage was constitutionally protected in 2010 and embedded by the enactment of the Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expressions Act No. 33 [2016] that promotes the right to cultural expression. This cultural reality should provide the launching pad for a more permissive and auditable surrogacy legislation in Kenya and transferability to sub-Saharan Africa burdened, with the exception of South Africa, by unregulated ART practice.
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Mandler, Peter. "Tories and Paupers: Christian Political Economy and the Making of the New Poor Law." Historical Journal 33, no. 1 (March 1990): 81–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x0001311x.
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Everyone knows that Edwin Chadwick wrote the New Poor Law; or, rather, that he wrote the report – issued in 1834 by the royal commission appointed two years earlier to inquire into the poor laws – which formed the basis for the New Poor Law. The well-informed among us might add the name of the political economist Nassau Senior as Chadwick's co-author. But few would be able to supply any of the further seven names which stood with Chadwick's and Senior's as co-signatories to the report. These seven royal commissioners were Bishop Blomfield of London, Bishop Sumner of Chester, William Sturges Bourne, M.P., the Rev. Henry Bishop, Henry Gawler, Walter Coulson, and James Traill.
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Vigil, Ralph H. "Oidores Letrados and the Idea of Justice, 1480-1570." Americas 47, no. 1 (July 1990): 39–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1006723.
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This article attempts to compare the qualifications ascribed to law graduates who received appointments as oidores (royal judges) with their character and conduct as royal agents charged with the administration of the king's wishes, laws, edicts, and provisions. Because my conclusions are based on the conduct of royal judges serving in the appellate courts of Granada, Española, New Granada, Guatemala, and Mexico in the sixteenth century, this is not a definitive study. More than a thousand judges served in the New World audiencias (high courts) up to 1700. Moreover, judicial reviews (residencias), letters to the Crown, and related materials tend to stress sins of commission or omission rather than the good deeds of the royal magistrates. Sources also reflect differences between royal agents, conflict between royal agents and provincial officials, and the clash between the interests of the Crown, the church, and the colonists. Granted these limitations, enough documentation exists to observe the dichotomy between the administration of justice by magistrates, who were men of flesh and bone, and the idea of the wise and clement judge discharging the royal conscience by making it conform to natural and divine law.
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Paisal, Paisal, and Pirza Adzkia. "Legal Construction of Isbat Talak According to the Fatwa of the Indonesian Ulema Council." Al-Qisthu: Jurnal Kajian Ilmu-Ilmu Hukum 19, no. 2 (December 31, 2021): 125–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.32694/qst.v19i2.1084.
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This article presents a discussion of the legal construction of divorce ratification in religious courts, or what can be termed isbat talak, because the norm regarding the ratification of talak does not yet exist, although it has been voiced by various groups, including the Indonesian Ulema Council through the fatwa commission. There are two main points to be discussed in this article. First, regarding the MUI fatwa framework regarding the ratification of divorce. Second, regarding the construction of ratification of divorce in religious courts. This study uses a qualitative approach with data collection techniques in documentation. The data sources were obtained from the ijtima' results of the MUI Fatwa Commission throughout Indonesia in 2012, the Marriage Law, and the Compilation of Islamic Law. This study shows that the MUI recommendation for divorce outside the court to be recognized as valid by the religious court is in order to find a middle way from debates between groups that rely solely on fiqh and the camp that relies solely on the laws and regulations. The ratification of divorce can basically be done through legal construction by judges with an analogous approach, namely equating the isbat of divorce with the isbat of marriage.
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Hulsebosch, Daniel J. "Imperia in Imperio:The Multiple Constitutions of Empire in New York, 1750–1777." Law and History Review 16, no. 2 (1998): 319–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/744104.
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At least once during his tenure, the royal governor of colonial New York received a list of questions from London. The Board of Trade, which recommended colonial policy to the king's Privy Council, sought information about the province's geography, population, trade, and legal regime. This last question often came first: “What is the constitution of the Government?” The responses, from the first British governor in 1669 to the last before the Revolution, described the imperial arrangement as a hierarchy of power flowing directly from the Crown. In 1738, for example, the lieutenant governor wrote that “The constitution is such as his Majesty by his commission to his Governour directs, whereby the Governour with the Council and assembly are empowered to pass laws not repugnant to the laws of England.” A decade later, Governor George Clinton replied more insightfully, with the help of his closest advisor, Cadwallader Colden: “The constitution of this Government is founded on His Majesty's Commission & Instructions to his Governor. But the assembly have made such Encroachments on his Majesty's Prerogative by their having the power of the purse that they in effect assume the whole executive powers into their own hands.”
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Royal Commission on the Laws of Marriage"
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Perron, Mathieu. "L'idéologie de l'assistance aux pauvres : le rapport de la commission royale d'enquête sur les poor laws de 1832-1834." Mémoire, 2008. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/1050/1/M10198.pdf.
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Le présent travail porte sur l'influence de l'idéologie utilitariste sur la conduite de la Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Practical Administration and Operation of the Poor Laws de 1832-1834. Il jette un regard nouveau sur le rôle joué par les
idéologies sur la conduite de la réforme la Commission, mais aussi sur la New Poor Law de 1834. Parmi les sujets traités, nous retrouverons la prise en charge de la pauvreté, la diffusion et la transformation des idées. Notre hypothèse de travail est que le Rapport de la Commission Royale de 1832 est le résultat d'un métissage idéologique dominé par l'utilitarisme. Ce métissage idéologique était particulièrement présent au sein des classes supérieures de la société britannique (bourgeoisie et aristocratie). Pour ce faire, nous avons analysé en profondeur le Rapport produit par la Commission: analyse du contenu et analyse du discours. Nous avons aussi adopté une approche biographique où l'on discute des principaux artisans de la Commission, de leurs allégeances politiques et idéologiques et de l'influence qu'ils eurent les uns sur les autres. Puis, nous avons analysé les principaux courants idéologiques de l'époque concernant la pauvreté, de 1795, date de mise en place du système de Speenhamland, jusqu'à 1834, date où la Poor Law fut modifiée en profondeur. Pour ce faire, nous avons utilisé des sources primaires comme les écrits de Jeremy Bentham ou de Thomas Robert Malthus par exemple. Nous avons aussi analysé certains articles de journaux publiés dans le Edinburgh Review et le Quarterly Review qui traitaient de la pauvreté ou des Poor Laws. Enfin, pour bien comprendre l'influence et les limites de l'idéologie sur la conduite de la réforme, nous avons analysé les débats parlementaires sur l'adoption de la New Poor Law de 1834. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Économie politique, Grande-Bretagne, Libéralisme, Malthusianisme, Parlement, Utilitarisme, XIXe siècle.
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Tyler, John. "A Pragmatic Standard of Legal Validity." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10885.
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American jurisprudence currently applies two incompatible validity standards to determine which laws are enforceable. The natural law tradition evaluates validity by an uncertain standard of divine law, and its methodology relies on contradictory views of human reason. Legal positivism, on the other hand, relies on a methodology that commits the analytic fallacy, separates law from its application, and produces an incomplete model of law.
These incompatible standards have created a schism in American jurisprudence that impairs the delivery of justice. This dissertation therefore formulates a new standard for legal validity. This new standard rejects the uncertainties and inconsistencies inherent in natural law theory. It also rejects the narrow linguistic methodology of legal positivism.
In their stead, this dissertation adopts a pragmatic methodology that develops a standard for legal validity based on actual legal experience. This approach focuses on the operations of law and its effects upon ongoing human activities, and it evaluates legal principles by applying the experimental method to the social consequences they produce. Because legal history provides a long record of past experimentation with legal principles, legal history is an essential feature of this method.
This new validity standard contains three principles. The principle of reason requires legal systems to respect every subject as a rational creature with a free will. The principle of reason also requires procedural due process to protect against the punishment of the innocent and the tyranny of the majority. Legal systems that respect their subjects' status as rational creatures with free wills permit their subjects to orient their own behavior. The principle of reason therefore requires substantive due process to ensure that laws provide dependable guideposts to individuals in orienting their behavior.
The principle of consent recognizes that the legitimacy of law derives from the consent of those subject to its power. Common law custom, the doctrine of stare decisis, and legislation sanctioned by the subjects' legitimate representatives all evidence consent.
The principle of autonomy establishes the authority of law. Laws must wield supremacy over political rulers, and political rulers must be subject to the same laws as other citizens. Political rulers may not arbitrarily alter the law to accord to their will.
Legal history demonstrates that, in the absence of a validity standard based on these principles, legal systems will not treat their subjects as ends in themselves. They will inevitably treat their subjects as mere means to other ends. Once laws do this, men have no rest from evil.
Books on the topic "Royal Commission on the Laws of Marriage"
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Malawi. Law Commission on the Review of the Laws on Marriage and Divorce. Report of the Law Commission on the Review of the Laws on Marriage and Divorce. Lilongwe, Malawi: Govt. Printer, 2006.
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Mead, Greg. A royal omission: A critical summary of the evidence given to the Hindmarsh Island Bridge Royal Commission with an alternative report. [Adelaide], S. Aust: G. Mead, 1995.
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Ed, Wallis, and Fabian Society (Great Britain), eds. From the workhouse to welfare: What Beatrice Webb's 1909 minority report can teach us today. London: Fabian Society, 2009.
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Ed, Wallis, and Fabian Society (Great Britain), eds. From the workhouse to welfare: What Beatrice Webb's 1909 minority report can teach us today. London: Fabian Society, 2009.
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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP). Opening statements on the occasion of the launch of the public hearings of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. [Ottawa]: The Commission, 1992.
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Srivastava, Rajendra Kumar. Srivastava's commentaries on the Hindu Marriage Act (Act no. 25 of 1955) and state rules under Hindu marriage act, Law Commission of India ninety eighth report, Law Commission of India seventy-first report, Law Commission of India fifty-ninth report, brief history of Hindu Marriage Act, marriage law, marriage procedures in India for NRI's-PIO,S or foreigners, divorce under Hindu marriage, restitution of conjugal rights in Hindu Marriage Act, Hindu law between Bangladesh and India alongwith important allied laws. Edited by Srivastava A. B. 3rd ed. Allahabad, India: Law Publishers (India) Pvt. Ltd., 2015.
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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP). The mandate: Background documents. Ottawa, Ont: The Commission, 1991.
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Alex, Denny, and Mannette Joy, eds. Elusive justice: Beyond the Marshal inquiry. Halifax: Fernwood Pub., 1992.
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1810-1898, Stearns John M., ed. The germs and developments of the laws of England: Embracing the Anglo-Saxon laws extant from the sixth century to A.D., 1066, as translated into English under the royal record commission of William IV., with the introduction of the common law by Norman judges after the conquest, and its earliest proferts in Magna Charta. Clark, N.J: The Lawbook Exchange, 2007.
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Nations, United. The United Nations and the advancement of women, 1945-1996. New York: Dept. of Public Information, United Nations, 1996.
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Auspos, Patricia. "4. A Partnership of Equals." In Breaking Conventions, 259–328. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0318.04.
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The extraordinary partnership that Beatrice and Sydney Webb embarked on when they married in 1892 spanned almost fifty years and left a lasting mark on British sociology, social welfare policy, and public administration. Groomed to make a Society marriage, Beatrice Potter (1858-1943) grew up believing that love and career were incompatible goals for a woman. Her disastrous relationship with the prominent, domineering politician Joseph Chamberlain reinforced that conviction. After it became clear that they would not marry, Beatrice made a name for herself as a social investigator, studying London’s poor in the late 1880s. But she could not shake off her obsessive love for Chamberlain. When Sidney Webb (1859-1947), a Fabian Socialist and a clerk in the Colonial Office, fell in love with Beatrice in 1890, he assured her that she could enjoy love and work. After a year of agonizing doubt, she agreed to marry him because she believed he would be the ideal partner for her work. But she was not passionately in love with him, as she had been with Chamberlain. She did not find Sydney physically attractive and was embarrassed by his lower class origins. It took Beatrice ten years to be fully happy with Sidney and a marriage that was focused almost entirely on work. Instead of having children, they wrote books together. They investigated social and economic issues, campaigned for sweeping changes in education and social policy, sat on government commissions, and were instrumental in founding the London School of Economics. When they married, Sidney vowed they would show the world what a marriage of true equals looked like. Beatrice agreed, but always recoiled from any suggestion that she was the dominant partner in the relationship. Their collaboration, in sharp contrast to the Youngs’ partnership, was fundamentally egalitarian: it acknowledged Beatrice’s contributions as much as Sidney’s and allowed each to play a variety of public roles. Beatrice headed a public campaign to rewrite Britain’s Poor Law legislation, and sat on several government commissions during World War I. Sidney was elected to Parliament and held two Cabinet posts. They are buried together in Westminster Abbey, the only non-royal couple to be so honored. But their seemingly idyllic union was marred for many years by Beatrice’s yearning for a more romantically compelling partner than Sydney and her sublimated passion for the dominating Chamberlain.
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Howsam, Leslie. "6. Journalism and Authorship." In Eliza Orme’s Ambitions, 105–18. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0392.06.
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A further aspect of Eliza Orme’s public life in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s was her eloquent, engaged, authorship—some of it signed but much of it published anonymously. This chapter situates her as a journalist and editor as well as a lawyer and politician. In more or less chronological order, sections include: ‘Contributions to The Examiner, Englishwoman’s Review and Longman’s (and an index)’ (these comprised her important essays ‘Sound-Minded Women’ and ‘How Poor Ladies Live’ as well as a work of legal scholarship that took the form of indexing Savill Vaizey’s book on marriage settlements); ‘Leaders for the Weekly Dispatch’ (an important aspect of Orme’s life that puts her among a handful of powerful women journalists, but still awaits further research); The Women’s Gazette and the Royal Commission (whatever the political or official purposes of these activities, the editing of the Women’s Gazette was journalism and the several reports of the Royal Commission report constituted authorship); ‘A Trial in India, a literary labour of love, and more’ (Orme’s editing of The Trial of Shama Charan Pal and her biography, Lady Fry of Darlington); ‘National Biography’ (Orme’s three contributions to the 1901 supplementary volume of the Dictionary of National Biography). This chapter is shaped significantly by Leslie Howsam’s research interests in the history of the book, and of the periodical press, in nineteenth-century Britain.
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Wily, Liz Alden. "Transforming legal status of customary land rights: what this means for women and men in rural Africa." In Land governance and gender: the tenure-gender nexus in land management and land policy, 169–81. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789247664.0014.
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Abstract This chapter provides an overview of land tenure reform, which should, in theory, prove a potent trigger towards equitable land relations between men and women in the customary land sector. This has been progressively underway in Africa since the 1990s. Broadly, a common objective is to release customary rights from their historical subordination as occupancy and use rights on presumed unowned lands, and much of which land remains vests in governments as ownercustodians. Or, where national laws have treated customary rights more equitably, a principal aim of reforms is to increase their security by these rights to be registrable without their extinction and conversion into statutory private rights. In short, this new phase of African land reform could signal the end of 70 years of intended disappearance of customary tenure as formally advised by the East African Royal Commission in 1955 and core elements of which were also adopted by France in respect of its own African possessions.
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Akhtar, Rajnaara C., Patrick Nash, and Rebecca Probert. "Conclusion." In Cohabitation and Religious Marriage, 155–60. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529210835.003.0012.
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This chapter sums up the state of debate in the field. It highlights the problems with the current law as discussed throughout the book and emphasises the need for major reform. It ends on an optimistic note by drawing attention to the current Law Commission project to design effective marriage laws.
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Podany, Amanda H. "Gift Recipients and Royal In-Laws." In Weavers, Scribes, and Kings, 369—C15.F3. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190059040.003.0015.
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Abstract Stability in the Late Bronze Age (1550–1200) derived in part from that fact that many kings encouraged loyalty by awarding grants of land to loyal officials and others. Fields and orchards were central to the Near Eastern economy, but fewer of them were now in private hands and more belonged to the kings. Abi-hunni in Hana received a house from his king, who was present for the event, along with many high officials. Records like Abi-hunni’s contract, sealed by the king, were kept for generations because of the need to prove their rights to land. Stability also came from the diplomatic ties between kingdoms, particularly marriages of kings to allies’ daughters. Burna-Buriash II of Babylon was related by marriage to many great kings of the era. His daughter who married the pharaoh became one of a host of royal wives in a very international court, and lived through Akhenaten’s religious revolution. Another daughter, Tawananna, married Hittite king Suppiluliuma I, but was widely disliked in the court because she replaced the previous great queen. Suppiluliuma’s court and career are discussed, along with Tawananna’s conflict with his son. A third daughter of Burna-Buriash II, Napir-Asu, married Elamite king Untash-Napirisha who was her first cousin. Her biography details Elam during this era, the bronze statue made of her, and the buildings instigated by her husband, including the new capital at Chogha Zanbil. Finally, Burna-Buriash II himself married an Assyrian princess, but his son with her was overthrown soon after he took the throne.
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Kesselring, K. J., and Tim Stretton. "The High Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes and the Rise of Alimony." In Marriage, Separation, and Divorce in England, 1500-1700, 85–112. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192849953.003.0005.
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The issue of jurisdictional conflict that runs through each of the previous chapters emerges again and more forcefully in the fourth chapter, on the Court of High Commission. No regular church court, High Commission derived its power from statute and royal prerogative. Like Requests and Star Chamber, High Commission would fall in the revolutionary ferment that preceded the civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century. Historians are familiar with many aspects of the conflict between common lawyers and the High Commission, but our focus here is on the heightening of tensions generated by the court’s provision of aid and alimony to wives in troubled marriages.
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Martin, Russell E. "“A Canonical Marriage for the Uninterrupted Succession to Your Royal Dynasty”." In The Tsar's Happy Occasion, 42–75. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754845.003.0003.
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This chapter explores in detail the changes made to the sixteenth-century model by the choreographers of the wedding of the first Romanov tsar, and how these changes were aimed at solidifying Romanov rule after the chaos and violence of the Time of Troubles (1598–1613). The chapter also notes that the Romanov had an extensive kinship network based on marriage links to other boyar families that went back a half century. It discusses their network of in-laws who largely survived the upheavals of the Troubles and were now in a position to help the Romanovs, and themselves, politically. The chapter then shifts to describe the qualities of a potential Romanov candidate, and the real possibility of a Romanov on the throne, which would mean a restoration of the fortunes of boyar families — strong incentive for them to advocate and defend Romanov interests. Ultimately, the chapter reviews the Romanov's election in 1613 and their adept exploitation of ritual. It also analyses what it meant for them to have one of the greatest choreographers of the time on their side.
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Smuts, R. Malcolm. "Royal Mothers, Sacred History, and Political Polemic." In Stuart Succession Literature, 282–302. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198778172.003.0015.
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In addition to participating in individual successions, queens consort provided for future successions by giving birth to heirs to the throne. In doing so they also perpetuated ties of kinship between the Stuarts and foreign dynasties. Under James VI and I, royal marriage and procreation were treated as religious mysteries, by which God perpetuated legitimate rule through successive generations, and sometimes unified kingdoms through the laws of dynastic inheritance. But the Catholic religion of several Stuart queens rendered this attitude problematical, giving rise to a counter-current of polemical literature portraying consorts as threats to British Protestantism. This chapter explores literature concerning the roles of British queens as royal wives and mothers, and vehicles for dynastic alliances, over the century 1585–1685. It argues that both positive and negative depictions of queens were much more varied than scholars have often recognized, due in part to constantly changing contextual circumstances produced by the highly complex interplay of confessional and dynastic politics.
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Martin, Russell E. "Introduction." In The Tsar's Happy Occasion, 1–13. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754845.003.0001.
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This chapter focuses on the wedding rituals and dynasties in Russia. It describes and analyzes the themes explored by Russian polymath and “father of Russian science” Mikhail Lomonosov — ritual, dynasty, religion, royal women, and power (and several more) — as they were expressed in royal weddings from the end of the fifteenth century through the first half of the eighteenth century. The chapter then argues that court politics in Muscovy was marriage politics, and the marriage of the ruler was the critical moment in every generation of the dynasty. Each time the ruler married, the political elite around him reshuffled, with new royal in-laws joining the ranks of the innermost circle of courtiers in the Kremlin. It also notes that royal weddings, like other court rituals, were manipulated by wedding choreographers and sometimes by rulers themselves to project a dynastic message. Finally, and most fundamentally, the chapter rests on a close reading of texts, most notably the rich corpus of Muscovite royal wedding documents. The creation of these texts were genuine events in the political and cultural life of the court, reflecting changes in ruling dynasties, religious attitudes, and political agendas.
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Farr, James r. "Marriage and the Uses of the Law: Legislation, Adjudication, and Litigation." In Authority and Sexuality in Early Modern Burgundy (1550-1730), 90–123. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195089073.003.0005.
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Abstract During the early modern period, authority and sexuality were defined in a moral order constituted by intersecting and reciprocally supportive ideologies of authoritarian politics, hierarchical social relations, reformed religion, and the law. The ediface of power and authority was patriarchal, and so a marital ethic was perhaps the fundamental mortar holding the structure together. This ethic was clearly embodied in royal legislation, and it just as clearly guided the jurisprudence of the courts of the realm. But if honor able marriage was the goal of nearly all French men and women, regardless of social rank, how people (especially women) used the laws pertaining to marriage in marital strategies and what impact this had upon practical jurisprudence (if not legislation) reveals that the meaning of the ethic was much more complex than prescriptive literature or legislation might suggest.