See also:

• ACCURSIUS (Ital. AccoRso), FRANCISCUS (1182-1260)

ACCURSIUS (Ital. See also:

• ACCORSO (Accuxslus), MARIANGELO (c. 1490--1544)

AccoRso), FRANCISCUS (1182-1260)  ,See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian jurist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence about 1182 . A See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of See also:

• AZO (c. 1150-1230)

Azo, he first practised See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law in his native See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city, and was afterwards appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor at See also:

• BOLOGNA
• BOLOGNA, GIOVANNI DA (1524–1608)

Bologna, where he had See also:

• GREAT

great success as a teacher . He undertook the great See also:

• WORK

work of arranging into one See also:

• BODY

body the almost innumerable comments and remarks upon the See also:

• CODE (Lat. codex)

Code, the Institutes and Digests, the confused See also:

• DISPERSION
• DISPERSION (from Lat. dispergere, to scatter)

dispersion of which among the See also:

• WORKS

works of different writers caused much obscurity and See also:

• CONTRADICTION, PRINCIPLE OF (principium contradictionis)

contradiction . This compilation, bearing the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title Glossa ordinaria or magistralis, but usually known as the Great See also:

• GLOSS, GLOSSARY

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 (DIoNysms), SAINT
• DENIS, JOHANN NEPOMUK COSMAS MICHAEL (1729-1800)

Denis Godefroi (1549-1621), published at See also:

• LYONS
• LYONS (Fr. Lyon)
• LYONS, COUNCILS OF
• LYONS, EDMUND LYONS, BARON (1790-1858)
• LYONS, RICHARD BICKERTON PEMELL LYONS, 1ST EARL (1817–1887)

Lyons in 1589, in 6 vols. See also:

• FOLIO (properly the ablative case of the Lat. folium, leaf, but also frequently an adaptation of the Ital. foglio)

folio . When See also:

• ACCURSIUS (Ital. AccoRso), FRANCISCUS (1182-1260)

Accursius was employed in this work, it is said that, See also:

• HEARING (formed from the verb " to hear," O. Eng. hyran, heron, &c., a common Teutonic verb; cf. Ger. Koren, Dutch hooren, &c.; the O. Tent. form is seen in Goth. hausjan; the initial h makes any connexion with " ear," Lat. audire, or Gr. &Kobew very doub

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 (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to mark out)

design . Accursius was greatly extolled by the lawyers of his own and the immediately succeeding See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, and he was even called the idol of jurisconsults, but those of later times formed a much See also:

• LOWER

lower estimate of his merits . There can be no doubt that he disentangled the sense of many See also:

• LAWS

laws with much skill, but it is equally undeniable that his See also:

• IGNORANCE (Lat. ignorantia, from ignorare, not to know); want of knowledge, a state of mind which in law has important consequences. A well-known legal maxim runs: ignorantia juris non excusat ("ignorance of the law does not excuse")

ignorance of See also:

• HISTORY

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 (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of law at Bologna, was invited to See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford by See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King See also:

• EDWARD

Edward I., and in 1275 or 1276 read lectures on law in the university .