This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ... trines he undertakes to specify. But his attention is chiefly directed to the opinions of Martinus and Bulgarus. The second tract, that of Rogerius Beneventanus "De Dissensionibus Dominorum," was first printed in the year 1537. An edition of it was published by Haubold, ' to whose learned labours the students of ancient jurisprudence are so much indebted. Wenck, another very able professor in the same university who has illustrated the history of the glossatores, is inclined to believe that the author wrote between 1127 and 1158; but Hauel fixes upon a period somewhat more recent, and places the composition of the work between 1150 and 1162. Of the materials supplied by his anonymous predecessor, Rogerius seems very freely to have availed himself. Another work of a nameless author, described by a good alliteration as " Codicis Chisiani Collectio," follows in the order of arrangement. Hanel supposes it to have been written about the close of the twelfth century. The author mentions the names of many recent writers on the civil law, all of whom, so far as can be ascertained, were natives of Italy, and it is highly probable that he likewise belonged to that country. From the two previous collections he has transcribed entire paragraphs. The " Dissensiones Dominorum" of Hugolinus form a work of much greater extent than the other three combined. It comprehends no fewer than 470 paragraphs. Savigny and Hanel are both of opinion that the author must have written about the beginning of the thirteenth century. He has to a great extent incorporated the collections of his three predecessors, and has made many additions of his own. He mentions most of the writers whose names occur in the third collection, together with several others, and among these...