BAGUETTE (Albert) – DOCUMENTS AND MEMOIRS ON THE COUNTRY OF LIÈGE, Volume 1: THE PAWEILHAR GIFOU, Critical Edition, Preface by Maurice Yans
BAGUETTE (Albert) – DOCUMENTS AND MEMOIRS ON THE COUNTRY OF LIÈGE, Volume 1: THE PAWEILHAR GIFOU, Critical Edition, Preface by Maurice Yans
    BAGUETTE (Albert)
    DOCUMENTS AND MEMOIRS ON THE COUNTRY OF LIÈGE, Volume 1: THE PAWEILHAR GIFOU, Critical Edition, Preface by Maurice Yans
Édition :
    Cork
Date :
    1946
    1946, paperback, uncut, (numerous underlines and annotations in pencil), good condition, LXVII-122 p.
    “This collection of case law is presented in a most pleasing manner. MB has taken great care with it. As if it were a literary work, he collated all known manuscripts, arranged them judiciously, drawing upon the most recent and proven methods. Following the text itself, he printed a copious critical apparatus, and the work concludes with a glossary and an index of proper names. Since its publication, Mr. Jean Haust has elucidated the term Paweilhar, the origin of which remained rather obscure. It is clearly a register in which judicial decisions were recorded. (…) This valuable document, which dates back to the late 13th or early 14th century, is of twofold interest, both in substance and form. Most of the paragraphs deal with contentious issues relating to property, transfers of assets, inheritance, and right of redemption.” Sometimes even diverse subjects are addressed there…» (Noël Dupire, Romania, no. 275/1946, p. 400 et seq.).

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