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THE "TREASURE OF THE SENTENCES": A COLLECTION OF COMMON LAW JUDGMENTS IN THE...

THE "TREASURE OF THE SENTENCES": A COLLECTION OF COMMON LAW JUDGMENTS IN THE KINGDOM OF PORTUGAL

Soarez, Manuel De Ribeira. Thesaurus receptarum sententiarum, quas vulgus interpretum communes opiniones vocat, in alphabeti seriem digestarum post omnes omnium ea de re lucubrationes [...]. Venetiis, Apud Io. Baptistam Somascum, & fratres, 1569.

8vo, contemporary printer's wrappers, ff. [8], 252.
Several woodcut headletters, text in Latin with passages in Greek.

Rare collection of judgments and sentences, sorted alphabetically, that provide an apparatus of the common law of the kingdom of Portugal in the Renaissance.

Manuel De Soarez Ribeira was a Portuguese jurist of the sixteenth century. He trained at the University of Salamanca, where was professor of canon law. He also was an excellent scholar of Greek and Latin language.

References: CNCE 32789. OCLC 48598799.