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AZO (c. 1150-1230)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 81 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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AZO (c. 1150-1230)

AZO (c. 1150-1230) , See also:

ITALIAN

Italian jurist. This Azo, whose name is sometimes written Azzo and Azzolenus, and who is occasionally described as Azo Soldanus, from the surname of his See also:

FATHER

father, is to be distinguished from two other famous Italians of the same name, viz. Azo Lambertaccius, a canonist of the i3th See also:

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

century, See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

CANON

canon See also:

law at the university of See also:

Bologna, author of Questiones in See also:

jus canonicum, and Azo de Ramenghis, a canonist of the 14th century, also a professor of canon law at Bologna, and author of Repetitions super libro Decretorum. Few particulars are known as to the See also:

LIFE

life of Azo, further than that he was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Bologna about the See also:

MIDDLE

middle of the 12th century, and was a See also:

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)

pupil of Joannes See also:

BASSIANUS, JOANNES

Bassianus, and afterwards became professor of See also:

CIVIL

civil law in the university of his native See also:

TOWN

town. He also took an active See also:

PART

part in municipal life, Bologna, with the other Lombard republics, having gained its municipal See also:

independence. Azo occupied a very important position amongst the glossators, and his Readings on the See also:

CODE (Lat. codex)

Code, which were collected by his pupil, Alessandro de Santo Aegidio, and completed by the additions of Hugolinus and See also:

ODOFREDUS

Odofredus, See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form a methodical exposition of See also:

ROMAN

Roman law, and were of such See also:

WEIGHT

weight before the tribunals that it used to be said, " Chi non ha Azzo, non vada a palazzo." Azo gained a See also:

GREAT

great reputation as a professor, and numbered amongst his pupils See also:

ACCURSIUS (Ital. AccoRso), FRANCISCUS (1182-1260)

Accursius and Jacobus See also:

BALDUINUS, JACOBUS

Balduinus. He died about 1230.

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