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9 Ibid, Lib I, ch 2, § 4: ‘leges autem condere orbi terrarum proprie Romanis a Deo concessum est’.

10 Ibid, Lib II, ch 2, § 3.

11 Ibid, Lib II, ch 2, §§ 15–16.

12 This was a commentary on the Digest by ‘Brust.’.

13 J Schneidewein, Commentarii, tit De haereditibus ab intestato, ch 1, § 20, ‘Sed in hoc casu sicut in multis aliis, jus saxonicum propter eius iniquitatem non observatur sed restringitur secundum ius commune’, also citing a case from a German court in support.

14 Duck, De usu, Lib II, ch 2, § 17: ‘Ista vero statuta Saxonica, Lubecensia, Culmensia et alia quaecunque Germanica, secundum jus civile Romanorum intelliguntur et ab eo interpretationem recipiunt’.

15 Ibid, ch 3, §§ 1–33.

16 Ibid, ch 3, § 25. The second work was Le monde, ou la description générale de ses quatre parties (1637); the third was Liber singularis practicarum quaestionum rerumque iudicatarum (1610).

17 Ibid, Lib II, ch 3, § 29: ‘puta si de homicidio agat statutum, intelligendum est secundum ius commune, modo cum dolo commissum sit’.

18 Ibid, Lib II, ch 5, §§ 1–43.

19 See ibid, Lib II, ch 5, § 35.

20 Ibid, Lib II, ch 5, § 35: ‘Atque ita ius Romanum factum est ius Gallicum ex consuetudine Galliae, quae illud recepit, et ex consensu regum Galliae, qui ei iuris authoritatem tribuerunt’.

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