Pedro de Amigant - Decisiones et enucleationes criminales, seu Praxis Regii Criminalis Concilii Cathaloniae… - 1691

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DECISIONES ET ENUCLEATIONES CRIMINALES – PERE D’AMIGANT. BARCELONA, 1691

Legal work by Pere d’Amigant i de Ferrer (Manresa, 1645 – Pamplona, 1706), a Catalan jurist linked to the Real Audiencia of Catalonia, a judicial institution of great significance in the administration of justice in the Principality during the Modern Age. His professional career was tied to the judicial field, ultimately serving as adviser to the Real Audiencia.

The work, entitled Decisiones et enucleationes criminales, seu Praxis Regii Criminalis Concilii Cathaloniae, curiarum inferiorum, necnon aliorum tribunalium, ecclesiasticorum et secularium, constitutes a treatise on criminal jurisprudence that collects and analyzes judicial decisions and questions concerning the practice of criminal procedure of the Real Audiencia of Catalonia and of other inferior courts, both ecclesiastical and secular. It addresses aspects of the formation of the criminal process, its incidents, the issuance of judgments and their consequences, including references to circumstances of peace and war.

First edition published in Barcelona in 1691, in the printing house of Rafael Figueró, printer to the Casa de la Diputación. Text in Latin, representative of late seventeenth‑century legal literature and of particular interest for the study of the history of criminal law, the Catalan judicial institutions and the forensic practice of the time.