Napoleonic divorce law in Poland (1808-1852) / / Piotr Pomianowski.
In 1807 Napoleon Bonaparte created the Duchy of Warsaw from the Polish lands that had been ceded to France by Prussia. His Civil Code was enforced in the new Duchy too and, unlike the Catholic Church, it allowed the dissolution of marriage by divorce. This book sheds new light on the application of...
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| Superior document: | Legal history library ; Volume 57 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Legal history library ;
Volume 57. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| Notes: | The book describes divorce disputes in Poland during the enforcement of the Napoleonic Code (1808-1852). In addition to the analysis of the Napoleonic divorce law, the divorcing population and the scale of this phenomenon are characterized and estimated by the use of statistical methods. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Piotr Z. Pomianowski
- Copyright Page / Piotr Z. Pomianowski
- Abbreviations / Piotr Z. Pomianowski
- Acknowledgments / Piotr Z. Pomianowski
- Introduction / Piotr Z. Pomianowski
- Chapter 1 Marriage Through the Ages / Piotr Z. Pomianowski
- Chapter 2 Courts and Officials Involved in Divorce Proceedings / Piotr Z. Pomianowski
- Chapter 3 Course of Divorce Proceedings / Piotr Z. Pomianowski
- Chapter 4 Grounds for Divorce Judgements / Piotr Z. Pomianowski
- Chapter 5 Rulings on Subsidiary Matters / Piotr Z. Pomianowski
- Chapter 6 Divorce Statistics / Piotr Z. Pomianowski
- Chapter 7 Characteristics of the Divorcees / Piotr Z. Pomianowski
- Conclusion / Piotr Z. Pomianowski
- Bibliography / Piotr Z. Pomianowski
- Index of Names / Piotr Z. Pomianowski
- Index of Places / Piotr Z. Pomianowski
- Index of Subjects / Piotr Z. Pomianowski.