Observations and Emendations on Roman Law

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Iacobi CUIACII praeclarissimi observationum et emendationum libri XXIIII. Twenty-four books of observations and emendations wherein much corrupted and misunderstood law is restored, with the same author's commentary on the origin of law addressed to Pomponius; two comprehensive indices are appended, one of laws, the other of words and matters, with notable sentences. Cologne, Apud viduam Ioannis Gymnici sub Monocerote, 1591. 115 x 175 x 100 mm. Period full leather binding (worn, blunted corners). 48 ff., 1231 pp. A few pale water stains in upper margins; small worm galleries in upper margins from page 100 to page 350. Jacques Cujas (1522-1590), born Cujeus, also known by the Latinized name Jacobus Cujacius, was a French jurisconsult and one of the principal representatives of legal humanism, specializing in the restoration of authentic Roman law through scholarly analysis of original sources.