Author notes
*Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Aspects of this work were presented in a colloquium at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Chicago, October 1981, and I am grateful for discussion. Supplementary points not repeated here are contained in S. Wolfram ‘Anthropology and Morality’ 1982, Vol. XIII, 3. J Anthrop. Soc. Oxford 27:ff; The Legalisation of Marriage between Step-Relations‘ Archbishop of Canterbury's Group on Affinity No Just Cause (1984) App. VI, 144–8; ‘Facts and Theories: Saying and Believing’ in Ed. J. Overing Rationality and Rationales Association of Social Anthropology Monograph (Tavistock Publications) (1985). I should like to thank the staff of the Oxford Law Library and of the House of Lords Records Office for assistance in the location of divorce Acts and the Huntington Library for use of its facilities. Mr and Mrs Tomiak gave me invaluable aid in going through divorce reports in the nineteeth century Times, and I am grateful to the Lit. Hum. Board of Oxford University for financing this. Many people have assisted me in other ways, and I should particularly like to thank Dr B. M. Levick, Mr Charles Stewart, Professor T. E. Downing, Professor L. Dumont, and the Editor, Professor P. S. Atiyah, for helpful criticisms of written drafts. Finally, I must thank Mr S. Anderson for making available to me the typescript of ‘egislative Divorce—Law for the Aristocracy?’ in February 1984, prior to its publication in Eds G. Rubin and D. Sugarman Law, Society and Economy. Essays in Legal History (1984). Our researches on this long neglected area were until then wholly independent and Mr Anderson's kindness in letting me see his paper has enabled me to add references to his findings. Errors which remain are of course my own.
