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Title:: Trial of Mrs. Ann Nisbett, Wife of Walter Nisbett, Esq; of Grafton Street, Berkeley Square . . . For committing Adultery with Thomas Totty, Esq; (A Captain in the Navy, and Commander of the Majesty's Ship the Sphynx) At Doctors Commons
Publisher:: Printed for the Author, and sold by S. Bladon [and others], London, 1783.
Description:: A first step via Doctors Commons for subsequently securing a private act of Parliament to dissolve a marriage and to enable a re-marriage, available to the wealthy and well-connected (as here), the only means of obtaining a divorce prior to 1857
Condition:: Modern cloth-backed boards, printed paper label, quite well preserved and fresh, with the half-title and the final leaf giving the sentence
Book No.:: W-80431
Price:: $ 750.00
Category:: adultery, Parliament, divorce, marriage, trials

Author:: Snyder, William L
Title:: The Geography of Marriage, or Legal Perplexities of Wedlock in the United States
Publisher:: G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, New York and London, 1889.
Description:: First edition of Snyder's comprehensive work on American marriage law, with chapters on divorce, forbidden marriages, marriage of children, miscegenation, and bigamy, inter alia, with a final chapter devoted to his state-by-state analysis and summary
Condition:: Original brown cloth, gilt lettered, decorated endpapers and pastedowns, a very good copy; with the errata slip and with the bookplate of F.A. Carle
Book No.:: W-80511
Price:: $ 250.00
Category:: women's law, marriage

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