About this title: First published after his death, this unique and original ecclesiastical law treatise was hailed as ..".the first written in England" on the subject of matrimonial law, the relationship between spousal contracts and marriage contracts and dissolution of those contracts. The Dictionary of National Biography XIX: 229. Swinburne was commissary of the exchequer and judge of the consistatory court at York. Sweet and Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations I: 501 (39).
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Description: ISBN-13: 9781584772880; ISBN-10: 1584772883. Swinburne, Henry. A Treatise of Spousals, or Matrimonial Contracts: Wherein all the Questions Relating to that Subject are Ingeniously Debated and Resolved. London: Printed by S. Roycroft for Robert Clavell, 1686. [xvi], 240 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-288-3. Cloth. * Reprint of the first edition. Published posthumously, this was the first English ecclesiastical law treatise devoted to marriage, the relationship ... read more
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