Savoye Justice Codes: Ecclesiastical & Secular Law 1674

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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 covers, small cuts at the top of 4 leaves, interior otherwise well preserved. First part devoted to criminal law with chapters on heresy, simony, magical art, superstitions and standard crimes with penalties; second part devoted to civil law, including chapter on lordly power over slaves, political law and ecclesiastical law.