In the first part of the paper, the notion of divorce in Roman law, and also the evolution of it, in particular, such as was connected with the appearance of Christianity in the Roman Empire, was discussed. In the further part of the paper, the issues relevant to the admissibility of the dissolution of a marriage in medieval canon law were outlined. A separate part of the paper was devoted to the issue of admissibility of divorce in the period of Reformation. The change in the understanding of marriage, as a private issue to be decided between spouses, was presented in the part concerning the period of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. At the end, arguments in favor of and against admitting the possibility of the dissolution of a marriage by spouses themselves, without the intervention for the part of court.
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