Download or read book A Treatise of Spousals, Or Matrimonial Contracts written by Henry Swinburne and published by William S. Hein. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).