OSTROWSKI- PRAWO CYWILNE NARODU POLSKIEGO t.1-2 [coplet in 2 vols.] ed. 1784

OSTROWSKI Teodor

CIVIL LAW OF THE POLISH NATION

from statutes and constitutions of the crown and Lithuania gathered, with resolutions of the Constitutional Council augmented with additions, multiplied from canonical, Magdeburg and Chelmno laws, and arranged in the order of Roman laws

Volumes I-II [complete].

Warsaw 1784, Druk. XX. Scholarum Piarum, pp. [6], 364, [6]; [4], 384, [4]; format 11.5x18 cm

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Author - pseud. and crypt: impartial citizen; O. P., (born November 9, 1750 in Kopina, Lublin province, died February 12, 1802 in Lviv) was a prominent historian and lawyer, piarist, professor at the Collegium Nobilium and the Corps of Cadets. At the king's request, he compiled a detailed material inventory for the seventh and eighth volumes of Volumina legum. For this work he was awarded the royal medal "Merentibus". By the Four-Year Sejm, he was appointed to the code deputation, which was to lay out the civil and criminal code. This commission was chaired by Hugo Kołłątaj, then the Sub-Chancellor of the Crown.
The offered work is a monumental study of Polish law.

The entire work contains the following parts: On Persons, On Things, On Contracts, On Crimes and Penalties.On Courts, Forms of Contracts, Records and Some of the Crown Court Transactions, Lithuanian Forms; the offered volume for the section on Penalties.

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Condition BDB-/ in vol.1 faint trace of flooding on initial pages, notations on title page, in vol.2 stamps, 4 initial pages repaired, minimal loss of text of pre-title page, some discoloration, stains, otherwise a NICE piece.