Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Elementa Juris Civilis Secundum Ordinem Institutionum Commoda Auditoribus Methodo Adornata (Elements of the Civil Law Arranged According to the Institutes [of Justinian] in Way Convenient for Students)

Venice: Balleoniana, 1749. Third edition. Hardcover. 12mo. xv, 600pp. Woodcut printer's device at title; printed marginalia; woodcut headpieces and decorated initials. Contemporary paper boards, with paper label and manuscript title at spine. Elementary legal textbook by the German Enlightenment scholar Johann Gottlieb Heineck, with supplementary observations by Johann Georg Estor. The work is ordered with reference the the Institutes, the most elementary part of the Pandects, or Digest, a grand compendium of Roman law prepared in the early 6th century by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565). Paragraph summaries in the margins. This popular manual was first printed in Marburg in 1727 and then in Venice in 1737 and 1744. Further editions with additional commentary appeared into the nineteenth century. The work as a whole should be viewed within the context of the legal reform movement within Germany that denounced Roman Law in the name of German nationalism and sought to build a new legal system founded in German tradition. Text in Latin. Extremities slightly bumped; occasional mild foxing. A very good, clean copy, uncut with ample margins. Very good. Item #37701

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