Jean Papon - Recueil d'arrests notables des cours souveraines de France - 1621

Rarest edition of this major legal work of the Ancien Régime, intended to gather, classify and comment on the decisions rendered by the principal sovereign courts of the kingdom -

French jurist born in 1505, advisor to the king and general lieutenant at the bailliage of Forez, Jean Papon devoted a significant portion of his work to the study of jurisprudence and the organization of judicial decisions in order to provide magistrates, lawyers and legal practitioners with a reference and reflection tool -

The work is organized into twenty-four books, distributed according to the legal subjects addressed, which allows the reader to locate the decisions according to the legal questions they pertain to -

Jean Papon - Recueil d'arrests notables des cours souveraines de France - 1621 - Robert Fouet -
1442 Pages.

State of binding: average, the work in its full original vellum, with scuffs, stains and wear from use, some major defects on the cover, spine and boards damaged with loss of material, head cap missing, corners worn, sewings split, mottled edges, spine with raised cords, author’s name gilded on a small piece -

Good interior condition, browning and damp stains, the first leaves gnawed along the margins, title page printed in red and black and adorned with a superb vignette, fine initial, handwritten annotations on the title, good copy -

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