EXTENDED COMMENTARY ON PARAGRAPH OF LAW

Piotto, Giovanni Battista (1518-1570): Tractatus de in litem iurando, sive aurea, et solennis repetitio l. Si quando, C. Unde vi. D. Ioan. Baptista Ploto Iureconsulto, & Decurione Nouariae authore. Nove in paragraphos distinctus, accuratissime impressus, repurgatus, & Summariis illustratus, cum indice locupletissimo. Venetiis [Venice], apud Altobellum Salicatium 1570.

A popular study of judicial process, first published in Venice, 1557. The work is written as an extended commentary on a single piece of law from Justinian's 'Code' (C.8.4.9), concerning legal cases involving acts of violence against property, where the victim, unable to prove the value of the loss, gives an oath. The law comprises 162 words (in the modern edition) while this commentary runs to 580 pages! Giovanni Battista Piotto studied at Padua and Pavia, and came from Novara in Piedmont.

Details

Small 8vo., fols. 290 [29] (lacking final blank). Slight foxing and spotting towards beginning, very slight worming to last 2 leaves (touching five letters), internally a good copy, bound in 18th-century quarter-spotted calf and painted pasteboard, spine gilt with black morocco label, rubbed, wear to sides, small piece missing from head of spine, covers loosening. Title written in contemporary or early hand along bottom edge. Stamps to verso of title-page and to last page, possibly of diocesan censors (the word ‘censore’ legible in each).

CNCE 64165. This edition not in Adams.