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DONEAU'S COMMENTARY ON JUSTINIAN'S CORPUS JURIS CIVILISDoneau, Hugues. Opera...
DONEAU'S COMMENTARY ON JUSTINIAN'S CORPUS JURIS CIVILIS
Doneau, Hugues. Opera Omnia Tomus Nonus. Et Commentariorum in codicem Iustiniani Volumen Tertium. Accedunt Castigationes Teologicae. Lucae (Lucca), Typis Joannis Riccomini, 1766.
Folio (374x253 mm), 19th century colored paper, ff. [4, pages at verso are blanks], VI, columns 1560.
Xylographic endpieces, text on two columns, romanic and italic types.
Ninth volume (complete in itself) of Hugues Doneau’s Opera Omnia, containing his commentary to the Justinian’s Corpus Iuris Civilis and treatises on fundamental issues about Commercial Law and Inheritance Law. Among the other we find the following items: writings containing Last Wills, Interdiction, Heirs, Distraint, Mortgages, Bequests.
Hugues Doneau (1527-1591, latinized name Hugonis Donellus and italianised Ugo Donello) was a French jurist belonging to the Scuola Culta. He was follower of Andrea Alciato, trying to apply his humanistic methods to the law enviroment.
The Scuola Culta is a social movement of lawyers of the late Middle Age that worked toghether for the renewal of current laws, with the objective to create a new set of laws, philologically coherent with its Justinian roots.
References: ICCU, IT\ICCU\RLZE\025708. OCLC, 832171090.