A History 
riot 
Matrimonial 
Institutions 
By 
GEORGE E. HOWARD, Ph.D. 
In Three Volumes 
HOWARD 
This is the only work of its kind, and an adequate appreciation of the present 
Status of marriage and divorce is quite impossible without it. 
PART .—An analysis of the literature and the theories of primitive matri- 
monial institutions. The patriarchal theory is first taken up, 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 
and ending with the present English law. 
PART III.—Contains an exhaustive treatment of 
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riage and divorce in the United States. AM the legislation The 
in a// the states since the Revolution has been examined, and ‘ 
all essential details are recorded. ‘The real status of marriage paarereny 
and divorce in the United States is nowhere else so clearly of Chicago 
presented. 
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