wife selling in England (Q1994709)

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English custom in the 17th–20th centuries that was a way of ending an unsatisfactory marriage by mutual agreement, in which after parading his wife with a halter around her neck, arm, or waist, a husband publicly auctions her to the highest bidder
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wife selling in England
English custom in the 17th–20th centuries that was a way of ending an unsatisfactory marriage by mutual agreement, in which after parading his wife with a halter around her neck, arm, or waist, a husband publicly auctions her to the highest bidder

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