MAINO, Giasone del.

by Giasone del Maino

£2,250 · Offered by Sokol Books

Very rare first Giunta edition of this work on legal actions in Roman civil law by the humanist jurist Giasone del Maino (1435-1519), first published 1483. It is a commentary on Book IV of the Institutiones, the student text-book of the Byzantine system of civil law promulgated by Justinian I. Del Maino states that all litigation occurs through legal actions, which enforce rights or obligations, the latter concerning contracts, and are always brought in relation to a property or an individual (in rem vs personam). Much of the work concerns contract law, including promises, usury, exceptions, etc. Del Maino describes the action that should be taken by judges in various cases. One of the crucial questions is whether legal causes can be inherited through marriage and descent etc., del Maino covering primogeniture, for example, as well as the rights of servants to bring actions against their masters, the rights of kings to alienate land, etc., obligations and rights of knights, etc. Del Maino also deals with actions responding to harmful acts (de maleficiis), including restitution. This copy has intriguing and splendid contemporary noble Austrian provenance, being from the library of the Römer family of Maretsch in South Tyrol, held by tradition to be Roman emigrants, hence the name. The four sons of Christoph (d.1544) were Catholic courtiers, religious knights and magistrates who rebuilt the family castle at Maretsch in Renaissance style: Kaspar Melchior (d. 1574) attended the

• Binding: Hardcover

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