REGNRSG 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Jacques Cujas, Twelve Tables, Ramism
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Jurist bartolus de sassoferrato (1313-1357) gave name to new school of practice of roman law: Bartolists were practically orientated; they saw the corpus iuris civilis as source of legal rules to apply to current issues in law (unlike glossators) Drew on roman law texts to give their opinions air of authority. Bartolus found solutions for problems such as the nature of exercise of authority in the northern. Italian city-states and laid groundwork for the conflict of laws (civil law; two different local laws; civil law and canon law - in conflict) Bartolus succeeded in finding acceptable solutions by using the system of cases in the corpus iuris to formulate set of general rules (not directly in corpus, but derivate authoritative) Findings set out in tracts (e. g. tractatus de regimine civitatis, c. 1330ad); Main work: exhaustive commentary on all volumes of the corpus iuris. Additionally: author of consilia (expert legal advice), quaestiones (disputed legal issues), tractatae and lecturae.
