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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 134 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACCURSIUS (Ital. See also:AccoRso), FRANCISCUS (1182-1260)  ,See also:Italian jurist, was See also:born at See also:Florence about 1182 . A See also:pupil of See also:Azo, he first practised See also:law in his native See also:city, and was afterwards appointed See also:professor at See also:Bologna, where he had See also:great success as a teacher . He undertook the great See also:work of arranging into one See also:body the almost innumerable comments and remarks upon the See also:Code, the Institutes and Digests, the confused See also:dispersion of which among the See also:works of different writers caused much obscurity and See also:contradiction . This compilation, bearing the See also:title Glossa ordinaria or magistralis, but usually known as the Great See also:Gloss, though written in barbarous Latin, has more method than that of any preceding writer on the subject . The best edition of it is that of See also:Denis Godefroi (1549-1621), published at See also:Lyons in 1589, in 6 vols. See also:folio . When See also:Accursius was employed in this work, it is said that, See also:hearing of a similar one proposed and begun by Odofred, another lawyer of Bologna, he feignedindisposition, interrupted his public lectures, and shut himself up, till with the utmost expedition he had accomplished his See also:design . Accursius was greatly extolled by the lawyers of his own and the immediately succeeding See also:age, and he was even called the idol of jurisconsults, but those of later times formed a much See also:lower estimate of his merits . There can be no doubt that he disentangled the sense of many See also:laws with much skill, but it is equally undeniable that his See also:ignorance of See also:history and antiquities often led him into absurdities, and was the cause of many defects in his explanations and commentaries .. He died at Bologna in 126o . His eldest son Franciscus (1225-1293), who also filled the See also:chair of law at Bologna, was invited to See also:Oxford by See also:King See also:Edward I., and in 1275 or 1276 read lectures on law in the university .

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