Napoleonic Divorce Law in Poland 1808-1852

Both marriages and divorces, understood as the dissolution of a legally contracted marriage, are widespread throughout modern-day European societies. The fate of both institutions was, however, diametrically different in the centuries following the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West. While marriage has always enjoyed popularity, divorce in the past was a rare occurrence and, in some regions and times, it was non-existent altogether. In the second millennium of our era, in the territories dominatedby the Roman Church, divorce had been marginalized--