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AZUNI, DOMENICO ALBERTO (1749-1827)

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AZUNI, DOMENICO ALBERTO (1749-1827) , See also:Italian jurist, was See also:born at Sassar, in See also:Sardinia, in 1749. He studied See also:law at See also:Sassari and See also:Turin, and in 1782 was made See also:judge of the consulate at See also:Nice. In 1786-1788 he published his Dizionario Universale Ragionato della Giurisprudenza See also:Mercantile. In 1795 appeared his systematic See also:work on the maritime law of See also:Europe, Sistema Universale dei Principii del Diritto Maritimo dell' See also:Europa, which he afterwards recast and translated into See also:French. In i8o6 he was appointed one of the French See also:commission engaged See also:drawing up a See also:general cede of commercial law, and in the following See also:year he proceeded to See also:Genoa as See also:president of the See also:court of See also:appeal. After the fall of See also:Napoleon in 1814, Azuni lived for a See also:time in retirement at Genoa, till he was invited to Sardinia by See also:Victor See also:Emmanuel I., and appointed judge of the consulate at Cagliari, and director of the university library. He died at Cagliari in 1827. Azuni also wrote numerous See also:pamphlets and See also:minor See also:works, chiefly on maritime law, an important See also:treatise on the origin and progress of maritime law (See also:Paris, 181o), and an See also:historical, See also:geographical and See also:political See also:account of Sardinia (1799, enlarged 1802).

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