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No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
The work is a 16th-century Latin academic dissertation (a doctoral thesis defense) by Werner König (also referred to as Wernherus Regius). Extensive searches across major library catalogs and academic databases yielded no evidence of any English translation, complete or partial, for this specific text. Given the nature of the document as a localized, ephemeral academic publication from 1588, it is highly unlikely to have been translated.
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Werner König’s doctoral thesis captures the intellectual friction of 16th-century European law. He moves from the sanctity of marriage to the abolition of archaic trial-by-ordeal in favor of rational evidence.