Les Regles du Droit Civil, Dans le Meme Ordre Qu'elles sont Disposees.
A Notable French Edition of the Digest, Book 50 [Justinian I (483-565CE), Emperor of the East]. Dantoine, J[ean] B[aptiste], Editor. Les Regles du Droit Civil, Dans le Meme Ordre Qu'Elles sont Disposees au Dernier Titre du Digeste; Traduites en Francois, Avec des Explications & Des Commentaires sur Chaque Regle. Et Trois Tables Tres-Exactes, l'Une de Tous les Textes du Droit Rapportes & Expliques dans cet Ouvrage, l'Autre des Regles du Droit Rangees por Ordre Alphabetique Selon leur ordre Naturel, La 3me. de Toutes les Matieres. Nouvelle Edition, Revue & Corrigee. Liege: Chez J. Dessain, 1772. [lxiv], 502, xxxii pp. Quarto (10" x 8-3/4"). Nineteenth-century three-quarter calf over paper-covered boards, lettering piece and gilt fillets to spine. Some rubbing and faint dampstaining to boards, heavier rubbing to extremities with wear to spine ends and corners, joints cracked, faint crack through center of spine, chipping to edges of lettering piece, two small later bookplates to front pastedown. Moderate toning to text, somewhat heavier in places, faint dampstaining to margins of preliminaries. $750. * Penultimate edition. The final title of the Digest, "De Diversis Regulis Juris Antiqui (Concerning Different Rules of Ancient Law)," is a collection of 211 maxims derived from Ulpian and other jurists. Dantoine's edition presents the maxims in the original Latin with translations and extensive commentary. First published in 1710, it went through six editions the, last in 1775. All are scarce. OCLC locates 3 copies of the 1772 edition in North America (Bibliotheque et Archives Nationales du Quebec, McGill University, UC-Berkeley Law School). Camus, Bibliotheque Choisie des Livres de Droit 658.
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