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BARTOLUS (1314–1357)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 452 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARTOLUS (1314–1357) , See also:Italian jurist, See also:professor of the See also:civil See also:law at the university of See also:Perugia, and the most famous See also:master of the dialectical school of jurists, was See also:born in 1314, at Sassoferrato, in the duchy of See also:Urbino, and hence is generally styled Bartolus de Saxoferrato. His See also:father was Franciscus Severi, and his See also:mother was of the See also:family of the See also:Alfani. He studied the civil law first of all under Cinus at Perugia, and afterwards under Oldradus and Jacobus de Belvisio at See also:Bologna, where he was promoted to the degree of See also:doctor of civil law in 1334. His See also:great reputation See also:dates from his See also:appointment to a See also:chair of civil law in the university of Perugia, 1343, where he lectured for many years, raising the See also:character of the law school of Perugia to a level with that of Bologna. He died in 1357 at Perugia, where a magnificent See also:monument recorded the interment of his remains in the See also:church of See also:San Francisco, by the See also:simple inscription of " See also:Ossa See also:Bartoli." Bartolus See also:left behind him a great reputation, and many writers have sought to explain the fact by attributing to him the introduction of the dialectical method of teaching law; but this method had been employed by See also:Odofredus, a See also:pupil of See also:Accursius, in the previous See also:century, and the successors of Odofredus had abused it to an extent which has rendered their writings in many instances unprofitable to read, the subject See also:matter being overlaid with dialectical forms. It was the merit of Bartolus, on the other See also:hand, that he employed the dialectical method with See also:advantage as a teacher, and discountenanced the abuse of it; but his great reputation was more probably owing to the circumstance that he revived the exegetical See also:system of teaching law (which had See also:beer neglected since the ascendancy of Accursius) in a spirit which gave it new See also:life, whilst he imparted to his teaching a See also:practical See also:interest, from the judicial experience which he had acquired while acting as See also:assessor to the courts at See also:Todi and at See also:Pisa before he undertook the duties of a professorial chair. His See also:treatises On See also:Procedure and On See also:Evidence are amongst his most valuable See also:works, whilst his Commentary on the See also:Code of Justinian has been in some countries regarded as of equal authority with the code itself.

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