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Title

Sexual slander in nineteenth-century England : defamation in the ecclesiastical courts, 1815-1855 / S.M. Waddams.

Author

Waddams, S. M.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2000.

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Description

xvi, 315 p. : ill., 1 map; 24 cm.

Summary

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Subject

• Adultery > Great Britain > History
• Ecclesiastical courts > Great Britain > History
• Fornication > Great Britain > History
• Libel and slander > Great Britain > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-294) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: 'Grievous and oppressive to the subjects of this realm' -- 1. The Common Law -- 2. The Ecclesiastical Law -- 3. The Courts and Their Officers -- 4. Patterns of Litigation -- 5. Evidence -- 6. Costs -- 7. Penance -- 8. The Parties -- 9. The Injury -- 10. Motives -- 11. Consequences -- Postscript: 'A barbarous state of our law' -- Table 1. Ecclesiastical court business, 1827-30 -- Table 2. Defamation cases by diocese, 1815-55, with diocesan populations in 1835 -- Table 3. Defamation cases by five-year periods, 1815-55 -- Table 4. Defamation cases by sex and martial status of parties (Norwich and York) -- Table 5. Populations of places of plaintiffs' residence (Norwich) -- Table 6. Disposition of causes at various stages of litigation (Norwich) -- Table 7. Sex and literacy of witnesses (Norwich and York) -- App. A. Illustrative Cause Papers -- App. B. Occupations of Parties and Parties' Husbands (Norwich and York) and of Male Plaintiffs (England and Wales).

ISBN

0802047505 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00699314^

OCLC

43281378

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Harvard Library