SAUVAGEAU (Michel) - DU FAIL (Noël) [DUFAIL de la Hérissaye] – COUSTUM

SAUVAGEAU (Michel) - DU FAIL (Noël) [DUFAIL de la Hérissaye]

CUSTOM OF BRITTANY, WITH COMMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS for the understanding and use of obscure, abolished, and to be reformed Articles, according to the Edicts, Ordinances, and decrees of Regulations issued since the last reform of the custom. The specific treaties of the Marches, separating the Provinces of Brittany, Poitou, and Anjou. A Treatise on the Right of Indult of the Officers of the Parliament of Paris and of the Graduates, and of its practice on the Benefices of Brittany. A research and learned discussion of the opinions that Monsieur d'Argentré held on several Articles of this custom, against the opinion of several Authors. With a very extensive and accurate alphabetical Table of Contents. ; t. II: THE VERY ANCIENT CUSTOM OF BRITTANY, THE ANNOTATIONS OF THE ANONYMOUS AUTHOR, The ancient Constitutions, Ordinances, Decrees, Regulations of the Kings & Dukes of Brittany. WITH A CONFERENCE OF CUSTOMS, & new Ordinances in the margin, by the same Author. ; t. III: DECREES AND REGULATIONS OF THE PARLIAMENT OF BRITTANY WITH THE OBSERVATIONS AND REMARKS of Master M. S..., celebrated Lawyer, & Attorney of the King at the Presidial Court of Vannes. ; [mq. t. IV and V]

Édition :

Nantes

Date :

1710 / 1710 / 1715

3 vols. in-4, full brown calf, gilt title on morocco paper, spine with 5 raised bands with compartments richly decorated with lace and floral motifs, speckled edges, rolls on the edges, headbands and initials, tailpieces and coats of arms, printing with wide margins, manuscript Ex-Libris, (boards rubbed with numerous abrasions, corners bumped with some leather missing, headcaps damaged, joints cracked, vol. III: rare non-penetrating wormholes, last pages of the table of contents detached), interior fresh, 242-52-40-106 / 302-160-29 / 712-64 p.

A magnificent and monumental collection bringing together the ancient and reformed Customs of Brittany AND the Decrees and Regulations of the Parliament of Brittany by Sauvageau. This collection is divided as follows: the first part comprises the reformed custom and Sauvageau's commentary in its first and only edition, the 1737 edition being merely an identical reprint. The author published this work in 1710 at the request of the Estates of Brittany. At the end of the volume, one finds two particularly interesting treatises: one on the "marches" (borderlands), which consists of an analysis of the autonomous legal system of fiefs in the frontier zone; and the treatise on the indult, a papal privilege that allowed officers of the Parliament to request, for themselves or for a cleric, an annual income. The study of this privilege is so interesting because this right did not exist in Flanders or Artois and was fiercely contested in Brittany. The second part of our collection—although published concurrently with Volume I—reproduces the text of the “Very Ancient Custom,” supplemented by ancient constitutions and ordinances of the Dukes of Brittany, which constitute its principal interest. The third part is a captivating collection of Breton judgments rendered between 1636 and 1705, featuring the writings of the most eminent orators of the period; the quality of Berryer's pleadings and Hévin's legal opinions indeed make this edition one of the most prestigious from a scholarly standpoint.

Référence : 52850

600,00 €

Mots-clés : Individual works, Customs, Ancient law - History of law, Collections of Judgments - Ordinances