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City (Charles-Emanuel de) 
State in abbreviation of ecclesiastical and secular justice of the country of Savoye. Containing the most important things in the History of the same country, the greatness of its Princes, the morals of its inhabitants, and the nature of its government, offices and lordships, together the theory, and civil practice, and criminal with their forms […] by noble Charles Emanuel de Ville, lord of Fontanil, and of Villaret, Baron Daypierre, advisor to HRH and senator in the Senate of Savoye.

Chambéry, Louis Du Four, 1674. 2 parts bound in one volume, small in-4°, 12 ff., 368 & 255 pp. & 2 ff., beautiful full calfskin binding from the period, missing caps, blunt corners, significant scuffing at the edges of a cover, small cuts at the top of 4 leaves, interior otherwise well preserved.

First part is devoted to criminal law with several chapters devoted to heresy, simony, magical art, superstitions as well as crimes that are normally found in all codes and penalties; the second part is devoted to civil law, with a chapter on « the power of Lords over their slaves », political law and ecclesiastical law. 

State in abbreviation of ecclesiastical and secular justice of the country of Savoye. Containing the most important things in the History of the same country, the greatness of its Princes, the morals of its inhabitants, and the nature of its government, offices and lordships, together the theory, and civil practice, and criminal with their forms […] by noble Charles Emanuel de Ville, lord of Fontanil, and of Villaret, Baron Daypierre, advisor to HRH and senator in the Senate of Savoye. First part is devoted to criminal law with several chapters devoted to heresy, simony, magical art, superstitions as well as crimes that are normally found in all codes and penalties; the second part is devoted to civil law, with a chapter on « the power of Lords over their slaves », political law and eccles