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===Skilsmisse=== | ===Skilsmisse=== | ||
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===Tamper Court=== | ===Tamper Court=== | ||
After the Reformation, | After the Reformation, Christian V, and the Danish Code of 1683, the same rules carried on. But now the parties could be permitted to remarry after three years because the church no longer considered marriage as a sacrament. A couple would divorce, but their case presented by tamper law, a special church marriage tribunal. The court came together four times a year - on tamper days. The name is a "Danishization" of the Latin "quatuor tempora" - the four parts of which the church year was divided into. | ||
===Judgement or decree?=== | ===Judgement or decree?=== | ||
After the Regulation of December | After the Regulation of 1 December 1797, the tamper law, claims, and matrimonial matters were referred to the general, civil law. You could get a divorce in two ways - by appropriation or conviction. The latter is very rare. | ||
===Mediation Protocols and form accounts=== | ===Mediation Protocols and form accounts=== | ||
To divorce | To divorce, a couple must first have been separated a minimum of 3 years. Before separation, the parties were required to go to mediation. Both a clerical with a minister, and a secular among county magistrates. | ||
Always remember to look in the Registry of the county in which a divorced or separated couple have lived. There may be new information in mediation protocol, which will tell why the couple chose to terminate the relationship. | Always remember to look in the Registry of the county in which a divorced or separated couple have lived. There may be new information in mediation protocol, which will tell why the couple chose to terminate the relationship. | ||
If a divorce is not preserved in the National Archives, you may be lucky and find it in the Justice Ministry's archive at the National Archives. Among the so-called "form accounts" you may find information or documents regarding the case. | |||
If a divorce is not preserved in the National Archives, you may be lucky and find it in the Justice Ministry's archive at the National Archives. Among the so-called "form accounts" you may find information or documents regarding the case. | |||
===Divorces before 1797=== | ===Divorces before 1797=== | ||
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Statens Arkiver. <u>Skilsmisse</u>. Denmark: Landsarkivet for Sjælland Lolland-Falster & Bornholm, 2008 <br> | Statens Arkiver. <u>Skilsmisse</u>. Denmark: Landsarkivet for Sjælland Lolland-Falster & Bornholm, 2008 <br> | ||
[[Category:Denmark Court Records]] | [[Category:Denmark Vital Records]][[Category:Denmark Court Records]] | ||