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VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT TREATISE ON SET-OFF AND...

VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT TREATISE ON SET-OFF AND COUNTERCLAIM

Bersani, Bartolomeo.Tractatus de compensationibus, authore I.C. Bartholomaeo Bersano ex oppido Hortae diaecesis Nouariae. In quo omnia ferme dubia, quae circa hanc quotidianam materiam occurrunt diligenti studio fidelissime enucleantur. Opus omnibus iudicibus, causarum patronis, & singulis in foro versantibus nedum vtile, sed propemodum necessarium. Cum indicibus lucupletissimis, tum argumentorum, & quaestionum, tum etiam omnium materiarum.Mediolani: ex typographia Caroli Iosephi Quinti, 1691.

Folio, contemporary stiff vellum with handwritten title on raised bands spine, pp. [12], 263, [72].
Title in red and black, woodcut headletters, woodcut head and tail pieces.

Very rare first edition, printed in Milan, of this important treatise on Set off & counterclaim.

In law, a set-off is an equitable defence to the whole or to a portion of a plaintiff's claim. A setoff is the right of a creditor to balance mutual debts with a debtor. In bookkeeping terms, setoffs are also known as reconciliations. To determine a setoff, simply subtract the smaller debt from the larger. Any balance remaining due either of the parties is still owed, but the remainder of the mutual debts has been set off.

The work also contains a catalogue with all the authors that previously wrote on this topic.

Bartolomeo Bersani (or Bersano) was born in Novara (Piedmont) and was lawyer in Milan. He also published a treatise on the rights of widows (1692).

References: L. A. Cotta, Museo Novarese, Milano, 1701, p. 76, no. 222. OCLC 79628780 locates only two copies in US libraries of this edition, at University of California Berkeley Law Library and University of Kansas Archives (Kenneth Spencer Research Library). Not present on the market for many years.