Abstract
Since time immemorial the family1 has been regarded as a fundamental social institution within Western cultures. A survey of legal regulation of this institution discloses quite cardinal changes over time—changes which reflect transformations in underlying religious, political and economic organization. Historically, three different periods can be discerned; an early period in which family relationships were regulated by unwritten rules of conduct which in some communities were later codified; a second period characterized by the predominance of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction; and a third or modern period characterized by the rise and continuance of parliamentary sovereignty.
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