A History 
of 
Matrimonial 
Institutions 
By 
GEORGE E. HOWARD, Ph.D. 
IN THREE VOLUMES 
GEORGE ELLIOTT HOWARD 
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Status of marriage and divorce is quite impossible without 
PART I.—An analysis of the literature and the theories of primitive matri- 
monial institutions. The patriarchal theory is first taken ee and the institution 
then traced until the modern form of marriage is developed 
PART II.—Presents a very full and carefully worked out account 
of matrimonial institutions in England, beginning with wife purchase 
land ending with the present English law 
PART III.—Contains an exhaustive treatment of mar- 
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Miage and divorce in the United States. he legislation The 
in a// the states since the Revolution has been examined an ire 
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