Rebecca Probert

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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 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 and Principles of Family Law.

Published Works

• Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome: rare or underrecognized in children?
• The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation
• The Impact Of The Marriage Act Of 1753: Was It Really "A Most Cruel Law For The Fair Sex"?
• Chinese whispers and Welsh weddings
• Regulating Marriage and Cohabitation: Changing Family Values and Policies in Europe and North America-An Introductory Critique
• Trusts Law
• The impact of the Clandestine Marriages Act: three case-studies in conformity
• The Judicial Interpretation of Lord Hardwicke's Act 1753
• Cohabitation in Twentieth Century England and Wales: Law and Policy
Moffat's Trusts Law 6th Edition
When are we married? Void, non-existent and presumed marriages
Equality in the Family Home?
Moffat's Trusts Law
Control over Marriage in England and Wales, 1753–1823: The Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 in Context
Same-Sex Couples and the Marriage Model
Cohabitation and Religious Marriage
Examining Law through the Lens of Literature: The Formation of Marriage in Eighteenth-century England
WESTMORLAND WEDDINGS: A STUDY OF THE 1787 CENSUS
Contextualizing Muslim Religious-Only Marriages
The Legal Treatment of Islamic Marriage Ceremonies
Evaluating marital stability in late-Victorian Camberwell
Great Debates in Family Law
The Nature of Families and Family Law
Cohabitation and marriage in England and Wales
8. Family Law Reform and the Women’s Movement in England and Wales, 1830–1914
R v Millis reconsidered: binding contracts and bigamous marriages
From lack of status to contract: assessing the FrenchPacte Civil de Solidarité
Cohabitants and the law: recent European reforms
Getting Married: The Origins of the Current Law and Its Problems
Love in the time of Covid-19: a case-study of the complex laws governing weddings
Introduction
Conclusion
Determining the Boundaries Between Valid, Void and ‘Non-Qualifying’ Marriages: Past, Present and Future?
History and the Law: a love story
Introduction
Determining the Boundaries Between Valid, Void and ‘Non-Qualifying’ Marriages: Past, Present and Future?
Conclusion
Determining the Boundaries Between Valid, Void and ‘Non-Qualifying’ Marriages:
Conclusion
Introduction
The Use of History in Obligation and Commitment in Family Law
State and Law
State and Law
Domestic Law
Introduction
Codes
The Transportation of Bigamists in Early-Nineteenth-Century England and Wales
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, dispensation and divorce during the years of Henry VIII’s ‘great matter’: a local case study
R v Hall and the changing perceptions of the crime of bigamy
Strange Bedfellows: Marriage in the Age of Women’s Liberation
Informal Muslim Marriages: Regulations and Contestations
THE PRESUMPTIONS IN FAVOUR OF MARRIAGE
Book Review: Sex and the Church in the Long Eighteenth Century
Book Review: Adultery: Infidelity and the Law
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
Undoing the Marriage: The Resort to Annulment
Law and Courts
Marriage
Children’s Rights
Disputes Over Children
Parents
Divorce
Child Protection
Domestic Violence
Marriage and Civil Partnerships
Division of Assets on Separation
Cohabitation
Adoption and Special Guardianship
John Witte Jr, The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). Pages xviii + 531. £29.99 paperback.
Introduction
The context of illegitimacy from the 1920s to the 1960s
Cohabiting couples and the law - past, present and future
Introduction
The context of illegitimacy from the 1920s to the 1960s
How to Create the Perfect Wife: Georgian Britain's most ineligible bachelor and his quest to cultivate the ideal womanWENDY MOORE
Bentham, Law and Marriage: A Utilitarian Code of Law in Historical Contexts
Jens Scherpe, Marital Agreements and Private Autonomy in Comparative Perspective, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2012, 532 pp, hb £75.00.
Marriage at the Crossroads in England and Wales
‘Stable illicit unions’
‘Fornicators’
‘Common-law wives’
No Name
Conclusion
Introduction
‘Unmarried wives’ in war and peace, 1900–1927
‘Live-in lovers’
‘Partners’
‘Living in sin’
Trusts in commerce I: occupational pension schemes
Trust, contract and unincorporated associations
Implied trusts and the family home
Trusts introduced
The taxation of private trusts
Aspects of the management of trusts
Trusts in commerce II: commerce and equitable remedies
Trusts and public policy
An introduction to the law of charity
Trusts in commerce IV: fiduciary relationships, commerce and the trust
Taxation, wealth-holding and the private trust
Creating the trust – II
Useful websites
Trusteeship, control and breach of trust
Creating the trust – I
The regulation of charities
Preface to the fifth edition
An introduction to trustees and trusteeship
The evolution of the private express trust
Trusts in commerce III: commerce, credit and the trust
Flexibility in relation to beneficial entitlement
A legal definition of ‘charity’
Carry On Up the Aisle!
Broken Engagements: The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Feminine Ideal, 1800–1940
Sir William Scott and the law of marriage
'From Fornicators to Family: Cohabitants and the Law, 1600-2010'
From the Restoration to the Regency: Kept Mistresses and Legal Contracts
Hindu Divorce: a Legal Anthropology. Livia Holden. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, United Kingdom, 2008, 259 pp (hardback £25.00) ISBN 978-0-7546-4960-1
Chris Roulston. Narrating Marriage in Eighteenth-Century England and France. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 252. $104.95 (cloth).
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
Introduction
The unacknowledged regularity of clandestine marriages
The little-considered marriage practices of non-Anglicans
The eventual passage and actual terms of the 1753 Act
The misunderstood contract per verba de praesenti
The myths of ‘informal’ and ‘common-law’ marriage
The overlooked response of non-Anglicans
The unexplored judicial interpretation of the 1753 Act
Preface
The unappreciated success of the 1753 Act
Conclusion
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University of Exeter

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University of Warwick

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