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Half-title 3 Title 5 Copyright 6 Contents 7 Tables 10 Appendices 13 Preface 15 Acknowledgments 17 Notes About This Book 19 Introduction 23 1 The Background Rules and Institutions 36 Formation of marriage 38 Impediments 40 Vices of Consent 41 Religious Impediments 46 Crime 48 The Problem of Incest 49 Impedient Impediments – The Problem of Clandestinity and Solemnity 53 Divorce 55 Procedure in marriage cases 55 Secular consequences of marriage 63 Legitimacy 63 Marital Property 64 Conclusion 65 2 Lying Witnesses and Social Reality: Four English Marriage Cases in the High Middle Ages 68 Dolling c Smith 68 Merton c Midelton 71 Ingoly c Midelton, Esyngwald and Wright 74 Tiryngton c Moryz 79 3 Statistics: The Court of York, 1300–1500 85 York cause papers over two centuries: the business of the court and claims and defenses in marriage cases 86 Results in the fourteenth century 95 Results in the fifteenth century 102 4 Story-Patterns in the Court of York in the Fourteenth Century 112 Two-party de presenti enforcement actions 113 De futuro and abjuration cases 134 Three- and four-party enforcement actions 145 Divorce from the bond 160 Other types of actions 168 Conclusion 173 5 Story-Patte

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Donahue, Charles.

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