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Common Law Marriage In "Measure For Measure", Lawrence N. Weiss J.D. (Columbia 1966)
Common Law Marriage In "Measure For Measure", Lawrence N. Weiss J.D. (Columbia 1966)
Lawrence N Weiss J.D. (Columbia 1966)
This paper explores the confusing expressions of the elements of "common law marriage" in Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure," its sources and its progeny, and reaches the surprising conclusion that Elizabethan/Jacobean law might not have been as we commonly understand it and as Blackstone summarized it.