BASSIANUS, JOANNES

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BASSIANUS, JOANNES , Italian jurist of the 12th

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

. Little is known of his origin, but he is said by Corolus de Tocco to have been a native of Cremona. He was a professor in the law school of Bologna, the

pupil

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)

of Bulgarus (q.v.), and the master of Azo (q.v.). The most important of his writings which have been preserved in his Summary on the Authentica, which

Savigny

SAVIGNY, FRIEDRICH KARL VON (1779–1861)

regarded as one of the most

precious

PRECIOUS (O. Fr. precios, mod. precieux, Lat. pretiosus, of high value or price, pretium)

works of the school of the

Gloss

GLOSS, GLOSSARY

-writers. Joannes, as he is generally termed, was remark-able for his talent in inventing ingenious forms for explaining his ideas with greater precision, and perhaps his most celebrated

work

WORK

is his " Law-Tree," which he entitled Arbor Arborum, and which has been the subject of numerous commentaries. The

work

WORK

presents a tree, upon the branches of which the various kinds of actions are arranged after the manner of fruit. The civil actions, or actiones stricti juris, being

forty

FORTY

-eight in number, are arranged on one side, whilst the equitable or praetorian ' actions, in number one hundred and twenty-one, are arranged on the other side. A further scientific division of actions was made by him under twelve heads, and by an ingenious

system

SYSTEM

of notation the student was enabled to class at once each of the civil or praetorian actions, as the

case

CASE
CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

might be, under its proper head in the scientific division. By the side of the tree a few glosses were added by Joannes to explain and justify his

classification

CLASSIFICATION (Lat. classis, a class, probably from the root cal-, cla-, as in Gr. icaMce, clamor)

. His Lectures on the Pandects and the Code, which were collected by his

pupil

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)

Nicolaus Furiosus,have unfortunately perished.

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