Note 215 — XVI MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE UNDER ROMAN AND ENGLISH LAW
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Probably the English Jews were permitted to exercise in the seventeenth and eighteenth century the right of divorce which their own law gave them. But in those days the Jews were so cut off from the general English society that the phenomenon passed almost unnoticed. They were a very small community, living practically under their personal law, as the Parsis do in Western India to-day.