Systema Jurisprudentiae Criminalis in Usum Auditorii in Universitate.V
Enlightened Criminal Law in Joseph II's Habsburg Empire, OCLC Locates 1 Copy in North America Banniza von Bazan, Johann Peter [1707-1775]. Systema Jurisprudentiae Criminalis in Usum Auditorii in Universitate Viennensi Perspicua et Facili Methodo Adornatum. Accessit in Calce Constitutio Criminalis Caroli V. Vienna: Typis Joa. Thom. Trattner, Caes. Reg. Aul. Tyopogr. & Bibliop., 1755. [xiv], 208; 150 pp. Two parts, the second with a divisional title page reading Kaysers Carl des Funften und des Heil. Romischen Reichs Peinliche Halsgerichts-Ordnung. Octavo (6-3/4" x 4"; 17.14 x 10.16 cm). Contemporary three-quarter sheep over paper-covered boards, raised bands, lettering piece and gilt fillets and ornaments to spine, later paper shelf label to foot of spine, edges rouged, marbled endpapers. Moderate rubbing to boards with wear to edges and corners, which are bumped, small chip to head of spine, cracks in text block following front free endpaper and following endleaf and p.208. A very good copy overall. $1,250. * First edition. Published in the year of his appointment as professor and court councillor of Roman and criminal law at the University of Vienna, Systema Jurisprudentiae Criminalis is a synopsis of the criminal law of the Habsburg Empire. It was based on the criminal code of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (1532), which is reprinted in German in the second part of the work. Essentially a code of criminal procedure, it dominated German criminal law for two centuries and served as the model for several local codes throughout the Holy Roman Empire. Bazan's presentation of Habsburg criminal law reflects the influence of Emperor Joseph II [1741-1790], who was, along with Catherine the Great of Russia [1729-1796] and Frederick the Great of Prussia [1712-1786], one of the great Enlightenment monarchs who were interested in penal reform. A second edition was published in 1763. Both editions of this work are scarce. OCLC locates 1 copy of the first edition in North America (Harvard Law School) and 1 copy of the second (University of Alberta). Das Verzeichnis Deutscher Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts 10896511.
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