TREATISE OF SPOUSALS, OR MATRIMONIAL CONTRACTS: WHEREIN ALL THE QUESTIONS RELATING TO THAT SUBJECT ARE INGENIOUSLY DEBATED AND RESOLVED.

Swinburne, Henry

Item #: 13659

Pages: xvi,240p.
Published: Union; Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.; 2002.

Subjects: CONTRACTS, FAMILY LAW, WOMEN & THE LAW

First published after his death, this unique and originalecclesiastical law treatise was hailed as "...the firstwritten in England" on the subject of matrimonial law, therelationship between spousal contracts and marriagecontracts and dissolution of those contracts. TheDictionary of National Biography XIX: 229. Swinburne wascommissary of the exchequer and judge of the consistatorycourt at York. Sweet and Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography ofthe British Commonwealth of Nations I:501 (39).Reprinted by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Distributed by William S. Hein & Co., Inc.

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