Pensando nos valores morais: casamento civil em divórcio em Belém (1890/1990)

Abstract

The purpose of this article is it of understanding as the ordinance no. 181 of January 24, 1890 that secularized as much the marriage as the matrimonial separation (divorce) it was interpreted in the city of Belém between 1890 and 1900. Referred her law reason of a lot of tension and intrigue that it involved several Institutions and social segments as the Catholic Church and the Republican State was as well as journalists, jurists and spouses. Of this it sorts things out, in the text that proceeds it was crucial to put in evidence the countless speeches of those segments which diverged, but they also converged the all the moment in a city that was shown concerned with the inserts that the secular power promoted in subjects that there are centuries they were under the domain of the Clergy.