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Family Law
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The Mysterious Canonist Bazianus on Marriage
September 7, 2025
Charles Donahue, Jr., The Mysterious Canonist Bazianus on Marriage, in Law as Profession and Practice in Medieval Europe: Essays in Honor of James Brundage 263…
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Comparative Approaches to Marriage in the Later Middle Ages
September 7, 2025
Charles Donahue, Jr., Comparative Approaches to Marriage in the Later Middle Ages, in Regional Variations in Matrimonial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150–1600 289 (Mia…
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The Role of the Humanists and the Second Scholastic in the Development of European Marriage Law from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries
September 7, 2025
Charles Donahue, Jr., The Role of the Humanists and the Second Scholastic in the Development of European Marriage Law from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth…
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Thoughts on Diocesan Statutes: England and France, 1200–1500
September 7, 2025
Charles Donahue, Jr., Thoughts on Diocesan Statutes: England and France, 1200–1500, in Canon Law, Religion, and Politics: Liber Amicorum Robert Somerville 253 (Uta-Renate Blumenthal, Anders…
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By Way of a Conclusion
September 7, 2025
Charles Donahue, Jr., By Way of a Conclusion, in Les officialités dans l’Europe médievale et moderne: Des tribunaux pour une société chrétienne 325 (Véronique Beaulande-Barraud…
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Philologia ancilla historiae: An Emendation to lex Burgundionum, 42,2
September 7, 2025
Stuart M. McManus & Charles Donahue, Jr., Philologia ancilla historiae: An Emendation to lex Burgundionum, 42,2, 131 Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Romanistische Abteilung 414…
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The Western Canon Law of Marriage: A Doctrinal Introduction
September 7, 2025
Charles Donahue, Jr., The Western Canon Law of Marriage: A Doctrinal Introduction, in The Islamic Marriage Contract: Case Studies in Islamic Family Law 46 (Asifa…
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Was There a Change in Marriage Law in the Late Middle Ages?
September 7, 2025
Charles Donahue, Jr., Was There a Change in Marriage Law in the Late Middle Ages?, 6 Rivista Internazionale di Diritto Commune 49 (1995).
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A Legal Historian Looks at the Case Method
September 7, 2025
Charles Donahue, Jr., A Legal Historian Looks at the Case Method, 19 N. Ky. L. Rev. 17 (1991).
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English and French Marriage Cases: Might the Differences Be Explained by Differences in the Property Systems?
September 7, 2025
Charles Donahue, Jr., English and French Marriage Cases: Might the Differences Be Explained by Differences in the Property Systems?, in Miscellanea Domenico Maffei Dicata: Historia,…
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“Clandestine” Marriage in the Later Middle Ages: A Reply
September 7, 2025
Charles Donahue, Jr., “Clandestine Marriage” in the Later Middle Ages: A Reply, 10 Law & Hist. Rev. 315 (1992).
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English and French Marriage Cases: Might the Differences Be Explained by Differences in the Property Systems?
September 7, 2025
Charles Donahue, Jr., English and French Marriage Cases: Might the Differences Be Explained by Differences in the Property Systems?, in 10 Comparative Studies in Continental…
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Female Plaintiffs in Marriage Cases in the Court of York in the Later Middle Ages: What Can We Learn From the Numbers?
September 7, 2025
Charles Donahue, Jr., Female Plaintiffs in Marriage Cases in the Court of York in the Later Middle Ages: What Can We Learn From the Numbers?,…
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Lyndwood’s Gloss propriarum uxorum: Marital Property and the ius commune in Fifteenth Century England
September 7, 2025
Charles Donahue, Jr., Lyndwood’s Gloss propriarum uxorum: Marital Property and the ius commune in Fifteenth Century England, in Europäisches Rechtsdenken in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Festschrift…
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The Dating of Alexander the Third′s Marriage Decretals:
September 7, 2025
Charles Donahue, Jr., The Dating of Alexander the Third’s Marriage Decretals: Dauvillier Revisited after Fifty Years, 68 Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte 70 (1982).
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Comparative Family Law: Law and Social Change?
September 7, 2025
Charles Donahue, Jr., Comparative Family Law: Law and Social Change?, 77 Mich. L. Rev. 350 (1979)(reviewing Mary Ann Glendon, State, Law, and Family: Family Law…
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Scandal and the Church’s New Matrimonial Jurisprudence
September 7, 2025
Charles Donahue, Jr., Scandal and the Church’s New Matrimonial Jurisprudence, 52/53 Law & Just. 34 (1977).
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What Causes Fundamental Legal Ideas? Marital Property in England and France in the Thirteenth Century
September 7, 2025
Charles Donahue, Jr., What Causes Fundamental Legal Ideas? Marital Property in England and France in the Thirteenth Century, 78 Mich. L. Rev. 59 (1979).
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Comparative Reflections on the “New Matrimonial Jurisprudence” of the Roman Catholic Church
September 7, 2025
Charles Donahue, Jr., Comparative Reflections on the “New Matrimonial Jurisprudence” of the Roman Catholic Church, 75 Mich. L. Rev. 994 (1977).
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The Case of the Man Who Fell into the Tiber: The Roman Law of Marriage at the Time of the Glossators
September 7, 2025
Charles Donahue, Jr., The Case of the Man Who Fell Into the Tiber: The Roman Law of Marriage at the Time of the Glossators, 22…
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Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages: Arguments about Marriage in Five Courts
September 7, 2025
Charles Donahue, Jr., Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages: Arguments about Marriage in Five Courts (Cambridge Univ. Press 2007).