Author: Leeuwen, Simon van.
Title: Censura forensis theoretico-practica, id est, Totius juris civilis romani, usuque recepti, et practici methodica collatio, qua non tantum ipsa juris Romani fundamenta, ad rationis, et veritatis censuram, methodice reducuntur, sed etiam ad usum practicum transferuntur ...
Description: Editio quarta ... Gerardus de Haas recensuit et observationis suas adjecit. Lugduni in Batavis : sumptibus Samuelis Luchtmans ... et Cornelii Haak, 1741. 4th edition. 2 Volumes in 1. Orig. blindstamped vellum binding. xl,624, 43; xvi,248,28 pp. Folio. First title-page printed in red & black with vignette; Second title-page with vignette. First pages sl. frayed. Binding sl. soiled. Very good copy. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. Fourth and definitive edition of important work to a 17th century lawyer's practice. 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). The Censura-Forensis is a very elaborate work on the relevance of old-Roman law for 17th century contemporary law. In fact it sought the beginnings of a national law, where it tried to indicated where (the censura) local law differed from the ius commune. .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, it was 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;

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