Extractus Stephani Verböczi, sive succincta explicatio Decreti Tripartiti Juris Consvetudinarii inclyti Regni Hungariae

[István (Stephen) Werböczy]: Extractus Stephani Verböczi, sive succincta explicatio Decreti Tripartiti Juris Consvetudinarii inclyti Regni Hungariae. Pestini & Posonii, 1800. J. Mich. Landerer. 342 [2] p. Second edition. Contemporary half leather binding, slightly damaged at spine top, lightly waterstained pages. - - István Werböczy or Stephen Werböcz ( 1458? 1541) was a Hungarian legal theorist and statesman, author of the Hungarian Customary Law, who first became known as a legal scholar and theologian of such eminence that he was appointed to accompany Emperor Charles V to Worms, to take up the cudgels against Martin Luther. In this letter, Pope Clement VII also commended Werböczy as scholar for his eminence in canon law and theology during Werböczy's dispute with Martin Luther at the Imperial Diet of Nuremberg. His interests focused on Roman Law, Canon Law and Hungarian legal system. At the diet of Hatvan, on 25 June 1525, he delivered a reconciliatory oration which so affected the assembly that it elected him palatine. During the brief time he held that office, he unselfishly and courageously endeavoured to serve both king and people by humbling the pride of the magnates who were primarily responsible for the dilapidation of the realm. But he was deposed at the following diet, and retired from public life until the election of János Szapolyai, who realized his theory of a national king and from whom he accepted the chancellorship. He now devoted himself entirely to the study of jurisprudence, and the result of his labors was the famous Opus tripartitum juris consuetudinarii inclyti regni hungariae (commonly called simply the Tripartitum), the de facto lawbook of Hungary until 1848 although as late as 1945 some laws of inheritance were still regulated by this work.…