Author: Leeuwen, Simon van. (With HANDWRITTEN & AUTOGRAPHED DEDICATION).
Title: Censura Forensis Theoretico-Practica : id est Totius Juris Civilis Romani, Ususque recepti, & practici methodica collatio, qua non tantumipsa Juris Romani fundamenta, ad rationis, veritatis censuram, methodice reducuntur; sed & ad usum practicum transeruntur, Interjectis constitutionibus, decisionibus, moribus, & statutis, non tantum generalioribus, verum etiam particularibus cujusque sere christianorum gentis, regionis, & provinciae.
Description: Amstelodami, Henricum & Theodurum Boom, & Lugduni-Batavorum, Johannem à Gelder, 1678. 2 volumes in 1; (36, preface, dedication, table of contents), 558, (34, indices) pp.; (12, preface, table of contents), 218, (22, index) pp. Contemporary full vellum; Small folio 20x33 cm. Title-page with large vignette (concordia invicta). Decorated intitials, head-, and tailpieces. With 2 large engraved plates (trees of sanquinity). With bookplate of Mr. W.C. Baert de Waarde on upper pastedown and owner's stamp of J. Gerlings. Light waterstained in upper right corner & margin throughout. With HANDWRITTEN & AUTOGRAPHED DEDICATION by the author Simon van Leeuwen (1626-1682) (partly affected by waterstaining): Practisimo Consultissimoq. Viro Ioanni vander Mark, m.d. Resp. Lugdunensis, apud Batavos Consuli Ad comitia praefecturae maritima apud Amsteodamensis, delegato, Academiae Lugduno-Batavae p/t/ Curatori hanc censuram forensem D.D. [signed:] Simon van Leeuwen septimo decem januar MDCLXXX. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : good. Good copy of this work so important to a 17th century lawyer's practice, later translated & reprinted many times in Dutch as : Roomsch-Hollands recht. Simon van Leeuwen (1626-1682) gained a wide reputation as lawyer and writer on practical legal issues. He edited a.o. one of the best revisions of the Corpus Juris with commentary by Gothofredus (1663), and a 6 times reprinted book on criminal process law. The Censura-Forensis is a very elaborate work on the relevance of old-Roman law for 17th century contemporary law. It deals with civil law, property law, law of succession, law of contracts and criminal law (Van Heijnsbergen p. 104). Though never highly regarded in Holland, they were translated into the principal European languages and issued in numerous editions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These treatises were especially influential in South Africa, where they were cited extensively and given a statutory place as a subsidiary authority in the South African Republic of 1859. Walker, Oxford Companion to Law 736; Camus 518; Dekkers 98; Roberts 184; 4 copies of this edition in OCLC. Part of the Dutch legal canon : Juristen die schreven en bleven, Nederlandse rechtsgellerde klassiekers, 22 (PM 21-2, 2019)

Keywords: RECHT, *2006-100 oud recht