Savoie Statutes in abridged form: ecclesiastical and secular justice of the country of Savoye, 1674

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Ville (Charles-Emanuel de)
Statute in abbreviated form of ecclesiastical and secular justice of the country of Savoy. Containing the most important matters of the History of that country, the greatness of its Princes, the customs of its inhabitants, and the nature of its government, offices and lordships, together the theory and practice of civil and criminal law with their formularies [...] by the noble Charles Emanuel de Ville, seigneur du Fontanil and du Villaret, Baron Daypierre, conseiller de SAR and senator in the Senate of Savoy.

Chambéry, Louis Du Four, 1674. 2 parts bound in one volume, petit in-4°, 12 ff., 368 & 255 pp. & 2 ff., beautiful plein veau binding of the period, missing headpieces, dulled corners, significant wear at the edge of a plate, small cuts at the top of 4 leaves, interior otherwise well preserved.

The first part is devoted to criminal law with several chapters on heresy, simony, magical arts, superstitions as well as crimes normally found in all codes and their 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.