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In our last blog we focused on suits for restitution of conjugal rights and how they could be used in repeat applications to the Divorce Court as a means to ...
What was a restitution of conjugal rights? Divorce was the most common form of litigation in the Divorce Court. But as we discussed in an earlier blog, there were other ...
Last week we got to an exciting point in the project, with a visit to our Project Partners, The National Archives at their site in Kew. We, the Principal Investigator, ...
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