Legal commonplace
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Loci communes iuris civilis. Ex mendis tandem, et barbarie, in gratiam studiosorum utiliter restituti. Addita sunt praesumptionum fere omnium, quae in foro frequentantur, exempla. Cum Ioan. Oldendorpii epistola nuncupatoria.
Lyon, Sebastien Gryphius, 1545.
8vo, pp. 337, [1]; printer’s device to title and last page, woodcut initials; small hole at head of title, pp. 222-223 strengthened to inner margins with some staining, worming to inner margins of pp. 311-325 with small areas of loss, creasing to corners, especially at beginning, some light damp staining and occasional ink marks; in contemporary limp vellum, remains of ties; cockled and stained with some small losses, hinges partly split; near contemporary inscription to title ‘ad usum Petri Segureti licenciati et amicorum’, seventeenth-century inscription to front endpaper ‘Joannes Ludovicus Boigues’; marginal annotations to 27 pp. and further annotations to endpapers.
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Loci communes iuris civilis. Ex mendis tandem, et barbarie, in gratiam studiosorum utiliter restituti. Addita sunt praesumptionum fere omnium, quae in foro frequentantur, exempla. Cum Ioan. Oldendorpii epistola nuncupatoria.
Scarce civil law compendium edited by the German jurist and professor of law at Marburg, Johann Oldendorp (1480-1567), with the help of his student Michael Boldewan, comprising pithy definitions and maxims arranged alphabetically from ‘absentem’ to ‘vox servi’, drawn from legal authorities such as Ulpian.
This copy belonged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to two legal practitioners by the names of Pierre Seguret and Jean Louis Boigues. Their occasional notes can be found in the margins and show a particular interest in judges and judgements, and witnesses and testimony. The front endpapers bear Latin notes relating to buyers, sellers and contracts, and seventeenth-century notes in French referring to Catherine de Moncausson. The rear endpapers contain a further text in French, and a Latin note relating to parts of the body.
Only 1 copy traced in the UK (John Rylands) and 2 in the US (Harvard Law, Library of Congress).
