Thanks for that Jen, he was sued for 2,000 with the settlement being 500. It appears he was going to take her away to get married quietly and the night in question he failed to turn up. All the best, Kevin. > Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:07:43 +0000 > From: jenmathias@gmail.com > Subject: Re: [GLA] Breach of promise > To: glamorgan@rootsweb.com; cardiff2cork@hotmail.com > > Dear Kevin > > Possibly the large amount was restoration of property which had become "realigned" during the engagement... > > Listers may be interested in the following… especially the "gold digging" comment of the law commissioners c. 1969 (yes 1969) which was when the law was finally reconsidered. > > From http://www.glaisyers.co.uk/Breach%20of%20Promise.htm > > Getting Disengaged – Breach of Promise > … until relatively recently if a young lady (or gentleman) asked her beau (or lady love) for their ‘hand in marriage’ and the other party accepted, then they had entered into what was in essence a legal contract, with all the usual consequences should it be broken. > > You would have thought that such ‘Breach of Promise’ actions disappeared with the crinoline and Queen Victoria, the fact is they didn’t. In the late 19th century, several Bills were introduced in the House of Commons, seeking to abolish the action for breach of promise, but none of them became law. > > In fact the whole subject of Breach of Promise was not examined again until the Law Commission, published its Report, entitled Breach of Promise of Marriage, in 1969. > > The Commission considered that the law gave opportunity for claims of “gold-digging”. (This is the reason why legal aid was never made available for such actions.) The Commission also referred to the argument that … “the stability of marriages is so important to society that the law should not countenance rights of action the threat of which may push people into marriages which they would not otherwise undertake”.… > > …The Commission accordingly recommended that the procedure under section 17 of the Married Women's Property Act 1882* for resolving property disputes between spouses should be extended to engaged couples. > > … /end quote > > A girl (wealthy family) I was at school with was sued by her fiancé in the 1960s for breach of promise… but the young man was not successful. This caused some amazement in the "old girls" network of course; we had thought this piece of legislation had died out in Victorian times. > > Jen > > > > > > > --- On Sat, 26/3/11, Kevin Mc Cormack <cardiff2cork@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > From: Kevin Mc Cormack <cardiff2cork@hotmail.com> > > Subject: Re: [GLA] Breach of promise > > To: glamorgan@rootsweb.com > > Date: Saturday, 26 March, 2011, 10:23 > > > > Thanks Gareth...... 33k that's a huge amount! > > > > What I find odd she's married 3 weeks after the court > > case......well why wouldn't she be with that amount in the > > bank? > > > > Thanks again. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:15:21 +0000 > > > From: morgangareth36@yahoo.co.uk > > > To: glamorgan-l@rootsweb.com > > > Subject: Re: [GLA] Breach of promise > > > > > > Hello Kevin > > > > > > Try this link: > > > > > > http://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ppoweruk/ > > > > > > Gareth > > > > > > --- On Sat, 26/3/11, Kevin Mc Cormack <cardiff2cork@hotmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > Also if there is a site that can show the value of > > money from that period to todays amount I'd appreciate it. > > > > > > Regards. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > To send to the list send to glamorgan@rootsweb.com > > > > > GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. > > are at > > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html > > > - > > > A large amount of information, and a wide variety of > > useful links, may be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ > > > > > > - > > > The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help > > Pages > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html > > and > > > http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com > > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > > subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To send to the list send to glamorgan@rootsweb.com > > > > GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html > > - > > A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful > > links, may be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ > > > > - > > The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help > > Pages > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html > > and > > http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com > > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > > subject and the body of the message > > > > >