[MAGDEBURG LAW] GROICKI Bartłomiej - Abrogatio & Moderatio Abusuum & sumptuum 1629

Abrogatio & Moderatio Abusuum & sumptuum: Quibus litigantes partes, tam apud Scabinale, quam Aduocatiale officium nimio antea grauabantur,necessaria constituta & per Senatum Ciuitatis Cracouiæ promulgata.

Estr. XV-XVIII, 17, 403.

A work in Latin by the prominent Cracow lawyer Bartholomew Groicki. It was not published in Polish until 1770 titled "Porządek Sądow i Spraw Mieyskich Prawa Maydeburskiego w Koronie Polskiey".

Throughout the pre-partition period, municipal law was not codified. Therefore, the works of Bartholomew Groicki ( 1519/1534- 1605) were of exceptional importance. He was a bourgeois, a Krakow double, a lawyer and a scribe at the Higher Court of German Law in Krakow He adapted Magdeburg and Carolingian law to the needs of Polish courts. His most famous work is "Articles of Maydeburg Law, which they call Speculum Saxonum" (1558) - this is the first work on law published in Polish. Groicki's works, characterized by the reception of Roman legal solutions and inscribing them into Polish legal realities, clearly formulated and transparent, and moreover, mostly written in Polish, in the absence of codification, were repeatedly published. They were widely used until the end of the 18th century. They shaped municipal law, court practice and even influenced Lithuanian statutes. (after the King John III Palace Museum in Wilanow)

Year of publication: Cracoviae 1629, in officina Francisci Caesarij

k. 7 nlb.

Format: 19.5 x 16 cm

Binding: publisher's booklet

Condition: complete, first two pages loose, minor discoloration/soiling of paper [no harm to text], at top edge of pages small dry trace of former flooding [discoloration of paper, no harm to text], no signatures or underlining in text, small loss on outer edge of pages [no harm to text], on inner edge of pages small holes [trace of insect activity, no harm to text].