Why Is Rebecca Probert Influential?
According to Wikipedia , Professor Rebecca Jane Probert is a British legal historian. Born in Rugby, Warwickshire, she lives in Exeter with her husband, the travel writer Liam D'Arcy-Brown. She studied for an undergraduate degree in Jurisprudence at Oxford University and for an LLM at University College, London. She currently holds a chair in Law at Exeter University. Specialising as she does in the history of marriage in England and Wales, her monograph Marriage Law & Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Reassessment is widely accepted among legal historians as having overturned previous understandings of the history of common law marriage. She is also the author of a number of leading text books such as Cretney & Probert's Family Law and Principles of Family Law.
Rebecca Probert's Published Works
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1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Published Papers The Impact Of The Marriage Act Of 1753: Was It Really "A Most Cruel Law For The Fair Sex"? Law and Society in England 1750–1950 The Judicial Interpretation of Lord Hardwicke's Act 1753 The Centre for Social Justice (33) Moffat's Trusts Law Regulating Marriage and Cohabitation: Changing Family Values and Policies in Europe and North America - an Introductory Critique Families, assisted reproduction and the law (19) Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome: rare or underrecognized in children? The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation: From Fornicators to Family, 1600–2010 Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Reassessment (14) Chinese whispers and Welsh weddings Control over Marriage in England and Wales, 1753–1823: The Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 in Context Responsible Parents and Parental Responsibility Cohabitation in Twentieth Century England and Wales: Law and Policy Cretney's Principles of Family Law (11) When are we married? Void, non-existent and presumed marriages The impact of the Clandestine Marriages Act: three case-studies in conformity Cohabitation : current legal solutions Common-Law Marriage: Myths and Misunderstandings (9) Trusts and the modern woman - establishing an interest in the family home (9) Trusts Law: Text and Materials (9) Cohabitation and non-marital births in England and Wales, 1600-2012 History and family : setting the records straight (9) Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: Frontmatter Displacing marriage - diversification and harmonisation within Europe (8) Cretney and Probert's Family Law (8) Reading History Sideways: The Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life, Arland Thornton, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005, pp 312 Sharing lives, dividing assets : an inter-disciplinary study Hyde V Hyde: Defining or Defending Marriage? (7) Sharing lives, dividing assets (6) The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation: ‘Living in sin’ Family life and the law : under one roof Examining Law through the Lens of Literature: The Formation of Marriage in Eighteenth-century England Broken Engagements: The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Feminine Ideal, 1800–1940 The evolving concept of "non-marriage" (5) Family Law in England and Wales (5) The double standard of morality in the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 (5) Equality in the Family Home? The evolution of the Commom-law marriage myth (4) Cohabitation and Religious Marriage R v Millis reconsidered: binding contracts and bigamous marriages Landmark Cases in Family Law Cohabitation and marriage in the UK (4) Reforming the rights of cohabitants – lessons from across the Channel (4) From lack of status to contract: assessing the French Pacte Civil de Solidarité Addressing the Legal Status of Cohabitation in Britain and France: Plus ca change...? (3) Moffat's Trusts Law 6th Edition: Text and Materials How Would Corbett v Corbett be Decided Today (3) State and Law Same-Sex Couples and the Marriage Model Moffat's Trust Law : text and materials (3) Evaluating marital stability in late-Victorian Camberwell Tenancies and same-sex couples (3) Cretney's Family Law (3) The controversy of equality and the Matrimonial Causes Act 1923 (3) Catholics and the Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753. (3) WESTMORLAND WEDDINGS: A STUDY OF THE 1787 CENSUS The Cohabitation Bill (2) Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: The eventual passage and actual terms of the 1753 Act Family law – a modern concept? (2) The History of 20th-Century Family Law Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: Preface Cohabitation : contributions and sacrifices (2) Identical addresses at marriage and pre-marital cohabitation : a reassessment of the evidence (2) Recording births : from the reformation to the Welfare Reform Act Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act-Vital Change 250 Years On? (2) Sharing lives, dividing assets : legal principles and real life The Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 in action: investigating a contemporary complaint. (2) Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: Conclusion Review of Cohabitation : the financial consequences of relationship breakdown, Law Com. No. 307 (HMSO 2007) (2) Cohabitants and the law : recent European reforms Cohabitation and marriage in England and Wales Contemporary perspectives on property, equity and trusts law (2) Lord Hardwicke’s Marriage Act 250 years on : vital change? (1) Great debates in family law [2nd edition] (1) Creditors and section 15 of the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 : first among equals? (1) Home-sharing : widening the debate (1) Family law and property law: competing spheres in the regulation of the family home How to Create the Perfect Wife: Georgian Britain's most ineligible bachelor and his quest to cultivate the ideal womanWENDY MOORE Cretney and Probert's Family Law [9th edition] (1) Great Debates in Family Law Sir William Scott and the law of marriage Contextualizing Muslim Religious-Only Marriages Marriage, religion and the law (1) The right to marry and found a family Marriage at the Crossroads in England and Wales Informal Muslim Marriages: Regulations and Contestations Family and Succession Law in England and Wales (1) Why couples still believe in common law marriage (1) The right to marry and the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 (1) Land, law and ex-lovers : Cox v Jones (1) Parents in law : the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (1) Review of Women, family and gender in Islamic law, by Tucker, J.E. (1) Le Pacs est arrive : France embraces its new style family (1) Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: Introduction Common Law Marriage Neither sacred nor profane: the permitted content of civil marriage ceremonies (1) Disputes over children. A Uniform Marriage Law for England and Wales (1) 'From Fornicators to Family: Cohabitants and the Law, 1600-2010' Something old, something new and something borrowed : reform of the law relating to the family home (1) Introduction : parental responsibility : law, issues and themes Cohabitants and Joint Ownership: the Implications of Stack v Dowden (1) England and Wales juxtaposed to the European principles of family law (1) The Legal Treatment of Islamic Marriage Ceremonies A Banbury Story: Cohabitation and Marriage Among the Victorian Poor in Notorious Neithrop (1) Sutton v Mishcon de Reya and Gawor & Co - cohabitation contracts and Swedish sex slaves (1) Creating the trust – II Review of Reading history sideways : the fallacy and enduring impact of the developmental paradigm on family life, by Thornton, A. (0) Review of Conceptualising home : theories, laws and policies, by Fox, L. (0) Introduction Introduction [Cohabitation : law, practice and precedents] (0) R v Hall and the changing perceptions of the crime of bigamy Review of Family law and family values, by Maclean, M. (0) From fornicators to family : changing perceptions of cohabitants in English law (0) Freedom of testation in Victorian England (0) Introduction History and the Law: a love story The Nature of Families and Family Law IEL family and succession law : England and Wales (0) Comment on the position in Northern Ireland (0) The Transportation of Bigamists in Early-Nineteenth-Century England and Wales Review of The property rights of cohabitees, by Mee, J. (0) Cohabitation and the law : past, present and future (0) A More Principled Approach to Parental Responsibility in England and Wales (0) Trusts Law: Acknowledgments Determining the Boundaries Between Valid, Void and ‘Non-Qualifying’ Marriages: Trusts Law: A legal definition of ‘charity’ State and Law Nutcases family law (0) The rights and wrongs of royal marriage (0) Common law marriages, broomstick weddings and other myths (0) Cretney & Probert's family law (0) Reforming the law : evaluating the Law Commission’s Consultation Paper (0) Sex, elopements and clandestine marriages in the eighteenth century (0) ‘Irretrievably Broken’? Introducing the Life-Story of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 Samantha Williams, Unmarried motherhood in the metropolis, 1700–1850: pregnancy, the poor law and provision (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Pages xv + 270. £79.99 hardback; £63.99 ebook. Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: The unexplored judicial interpretation of the 1753 Act The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation: ‘Partners’ Family Law reform and the Women’s Movement in England and Wales, 1830-1914 Trusts Law: Flexibility in relation to beneficial entitlement Trusts Law: An introduction to the law of charity Trusts Law by Graham Moffat Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: The unacknowledged regularity of clandestine marriages Cohabitation and the law : from ecclesiastical penance to the common-law marriage myth (0) Tying the knot : law, custom and religion in eighteenth-century England (0) Marriage and Civil Partnerships For better or for worse?: Encouraging marriage through the tax system (0) Marriage and the law in Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales, 1660-1925 (0) Presumed married : old solutions to new problems (0) Hanging on the Telephone: City of Westminster v IC (0) The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation: ‘Fornicators’ Hardy and the law (0) Cohabitants and the Family Home (0) Division of Assets on Separation Couples, carers, and home-sharers : investigating the boundaries of family law (0) Cretney's Family Law [5th edition] (0) Determining the Boundaries Between Valid, Void and ‘Non-Qualifying’ Marriages: Past, Present and Future? Common law marriage : survival or novelty? (0) Rights and registers : an historical analysis of the policies underpinning birth registration (0) Adventures in the archives (0) Determining the Boundaries Between Valid, Void and ‘Non-Qualifying’ Marriages: Past, Present and Future? 10 marriage myths debunked (0) Catholic ancestors in the Anglican parish registers (0) Cohabitation – prevalence, perceptions and policies : an historical analysis (0) The rights of cohabitants in the family home (0) The Misunderstood Contract Per Verba De Praesenti Trusts Law: Trusteeship, control and breach of trust The law and the courts (1660-1789) (0) The Wedding of the Prince of Wales: Royal Privileges and Human Rights (0) Trusts Law: Aspects of the management of trusts The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation: ‘Stable illicit unions’ Jens Scherpe, Marital Agreements and Private Autonomy in Comparative Perspective, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2012, 532 pp, hb £75.00. Divorced, Bigamist, Bereaved?: The family historian’s guide to marital breakdown, separation, widowhood, and remarriage: from 1600 to the 1970s (0) Undoing the marriage : the resort to annulment Fact and fiction(s) : examining the Marriage Act of 1753 through law and literature (0) Cohabitatants [sic] : a survey of European reforms (0) Trusts Law: Trusts introduced The British Empire and the law of marriage (0) Introduction Domestic Law Trusts Law: Creating the trust – II The Rights and Wrongs of Royal Marriage: How the Law Has Led to Heartbreak, Farce and Confusion, and Why It Must Be Changed (0) Review of Divorcing responsibly, by Reece, H. (0) Up to date as of January 2016 (0) Carry On Up the Aisle! The security of the home and the home as security Tracing marriages : legal requirements and actual practice (0) Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: The overlooked response of non-Anglicans The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation: ‘Live-in lovers’ Review: Divorcing Responsibly Trusts Law: Trust, contract and unincorporated associations Part IV. Succession Law (0) Diversity and conformity : religious dissent and the law of marriage in the long eighteenth century (0) Defining or defending marriage? An historical perspective on Hyde v Hyde (0) Strange Bedfellows: Marriage in the Age of Women’s Liberation Difficulties in the practical application of the law to cohabitation outside marriage (0) Tracing marriages in 18th century England and Wales : a reassessment of law and practice (0) The registration of marriages (0) The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation: ‘Common-law wives’ Has divorce law been re-written? (0) Getting Married: The Origins of the Current Law and Its Problems Trusts and the family home : is Mrs Burns really typical? (0) Marriage, dispensation and divorce during the years of Henry VIII’s ‘great matter’: a local case study Criminalising non-compliance with marriage formalities? (0) Looking back on the overlooked : cohabitants and the law 1857-2007 (0) Cohabitation: the current law (0) Trusts Law: Preface to the fifth edition Trusts Law: Trusts in commerce I: occupational pension schemes Optimistic objectives : proceedings of the 2010 symposium organised by Warwick University Law School and Soroptimist International of Kenilworth & District (0) Trusts Law: Table of statutory instruments Kept mistresses and legal contracts from the Restoration to the Regency : connections between legal rules and real life (0) The Property Rights of Cohabitees, by John Mee. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 1999, xxxvii + 320 + (index) 11 pp (hardback £30) ISBN 1 901 362 76 0 Double marriages of Catholics : a footnote (0) Parental responsibility and children’s partnership choices Review of Law of restitution in England and Ireland, by Tettenborn, A. (0) A long-awaited paper – sharing homes (0) Moral marriage, mistresses and mayhew : cohabitation and the law in nineteenth-century England (0) Review of The changing family, by Eekelaar, J. and Nhlapo, T., eds. (0) The impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on family law (0) Swept off your feet? Did our ancestors really marry by jumping over broomsticks? (0) Conclusion Inequality, marital breakdown and the resort to bigamy (0) Introduction Tackling domestic violence (0) Women, Family and Gender in Islamic Law . Judith E Tucker. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008, xii + 255 pp (paperback £18.99) ISBN: 978-0-521-53747-6 Parental Responsibility – Law, Issues and Themes (0) The Use of History in Obligation and Commitment in Family Law Changing technologies, changing understandings : ascertaining how people married in eighteenth-century England (0) 'Unmarried wives' in war and peace (0) The context of illegitimacy from the 1920s to the 1960s When are we married? Void, presumed and non-marriage (0) Review of Common law marriage: a legal institution for cohabitation, by Lind, G. (0) For richer, for poorer – but how does one find out which? (0) Trusts Law: Taxation, wealth-holding and the private trust Catholic marriages 1754-1836 : religious observance and legal conformity (0) Mis)interpreting the trusts of land and appointment of Trustees Act 1996 (0) "Living tally" in the classic slum? (0) Birth as an indicator of legal parenthood and entitlement (Henry VIII to present) (0) The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation: ‘Unmarried wives’ in war and peace, 1900–1927 Civil partnership: ties that (also) bind (0) Review of Narrating marriage in eighteenth-century England and France, by Roulston, C. (0) Family Law: its History and its 'Historians' (0) Marriage law for genealogists : the definitive guide (0) Keeping a roof over the family : dealing with claims by third parties (0) Home-sharing : are we asking the right questions? (0) Trusts Law: The regulation of charities Trusts Law: Table of cases Review of Trusts law : text and materials, by Moffat, G. (0) Fifty years in family law : essays for Stephen Cretney (0) Love in the time of Covid-19: a case-study of the complex laws governing weddings Implied trusts and the family home Law and the functioning family (0) Trusts Law: Trusts and public policy Under one roof : law’s interactions with family life [Introduction] Escaping detection: illegal second marriages and the crime of bigamy Introduction : a journey through the landmark cases of family law British imperialism and the law of marriage (0) Trusts in commerce II: commerce and equitable remedies Cohabitants and the family home : identifying the problem (0) Cohabiting couples and the law – past, present and future Family law and property law : competing jurisdictions in the regulation of the family home (0) Royal privileges and human rights (0) Divorced, bigamist, bereaved - interpreting your ancestors’ second marriages (0) Common law marriage : myths and realities (0) Parents in law (0) A uniform law of marriage? The 1868 Royal Commission reconsidered (0) The common law and marriage, 1753-1823 (0) Chris Roulston. Narrating Marriage in Eighteenth-Century England and France . Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 252. $104.95 (cloth). Trusts Law: Text and Materials, Fifth Edition (0) Hindu Divorce: a Legal Anthropology . Livia Holden. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, United Kingdom, 2008, 259 pp (hardback £25.00) ISBN 978-0-7546-4960-1 Outside the mainstream : alternative marriage ceremonies from 1700 to the present day (0) The Roos case and modern family law Trusts Law: Trusts in commerce III: commerce, credit and the trust Religion, marriage and the law (0) G188 The Role of Screening Investigations in Childhood Arterial Ischaemic Stroke Book Review: Sex and the Church in the Long Eighteenth Century Family law myths (0) Marriage rites and rights The treatment of cohabitants in England and Wales : autonomy or imposition? (0) From the restoration to the regency : kept mistresses and legal contracts THE PRESUMPTIONS IN FAVOUR OF MARRIAGE Conclusion Divorced from Reality? Literary Depictions of the Legal Process for Ending a Marriage, 1971–2021 Trusts Law: The evolution of the private express trust Trusts Law: Useful websites Trusts Law: Trusts in commerce IV: fiduciary relationships, commerce and the trust Carry on up the aisle! Marriage, cohabitation and divorce in popular film, 1958-1978 (0) Focus on : marriage records (0) The rights and responsibilities of cohabitants across the European Union (0) Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: The unappreciated success of the 1753 Act Unofficial families and artificial reproduction (0) Marriage and cohabitation in historical context (0) Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: The little-considered marriage practices of non-Anglicans Part II. Family Law (0) Trusts Law: Table of abbreviations A Noble Affair: The Remarkable True Story of the Runaway Wife, the Bigamous Earl, and the Farmer's Daughter (0) Book Review: Adultery: Infidelity and the Law England and Wales : family and succession law (0) Trusts Law: An introduction to trustees and trusteeship Women’s property rights before 1900 (0) Sharing homes. A long-awaited paper (0) Marriage and divorce, history of (0) Parental control over marriage, 1753-1823 : weddings, wills, and wards of court (0) Trusts Law: The taxation of private trusts Victorian bigamists – challenging authority or claiming rights (0) Marriages in early eighteenth-century Northamptonshire : the conventionality of clandestine marriages (0) The strengths and weaknesses of the Pacte Civil de Solidarité (0) Bentham, Law and Marriage: A Utilitarian Code of Law in Historical Contexts Interpreting choices: what can we infer from where our ancestors married? The politics of law reform : the case of cohabitation (0) Conclusion Civil partnerships and PaCS : a comparison (0) Divorced from reality? An analysis of divorce in literature, 1800-2008 (0) John Witte Jr, The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). Pages xviii + 531. £29.99 paperback. Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: The myths of ‘informal’ and ‘common-law’ marriage The status of a religious-only marriage: valid, void, or 'non'? Akhter v Khan (0) Marriage by any other name? The nature of marriage and civil partnership (0) The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation: Introduction Catholic marriages in the Church of England (0) The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation: No Name More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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