Vocabularius Utriusque Iuris

Details of the Dictionary “Vocabularius Utriusque Iuris”

• Publisher: Strasbourg (France): George Reyser
• Year of Publication: c. 1476

Review

In the words of the Tarlton Law Library (University of Texas School of Law):

“The anonymous Vocabularius utriusque juris remained a popular legal reference work from its first publication around 1475Title page Vocabularius utriusque iuris, 1476 until its last appearance seventy editions later in the early seventeenth century (possibly 1618). The earliest manuscripts of the text and the first printed editions are both fifteenth-century – it is quite likely that the original text was completed by 1424.

The text is an authoritative collection of terms and concepts taken from legal texts dating from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries, including the Vocabularius Stuttgardiensis (1432), the Collectio terminorum legalium (c. 1400), and the Introductorium pro studio sacrorum canonum of Hermann von Schildesch (c. 1330). Although the authorship is uncertain; Vocabularius is attributed to Jodocus, a jurist of Erfurt University, whose name appears in the colophon of some manuscripts of the text.”

Resources

See Also

Roman Law
Nouvelle Introduction a la Pratique
Termes de la ley
A New Law Dictionary, Intended for General Use as Well as for Gentlemen of the Profession
A Dictionary of the Norman or Old French Language
Dictionnaire Universel de Commerce: contenant tout ce qui concerne le Commerce qui se fait dans les quatre parties du Monde
Glossaire du Droit Francais: contenant l’explication des mots difficiles qui se trouvent dans les ordonnances de nos Roys
Osborn’s Concise Law Dictionary
Dictionnaire Analytique, Historique, Etymologique, Critique et Interpretive de la Coutume de Normandie (6.8)
Wolters Kluwer Bouvier Law Dictionary
Nomo-Lexicon: a Law Dictionary

Further Reading

Emil Seckel. Beiträge zur Geschichte beider Rechte im Mittelalter. Tübingen: H. Laupp, 1898.