Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

BASSIANUS, JOANNES

Online Encyclopedia

Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 495 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

» Make a correction to this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.

Encyclopedia Home :: BAR-BEC

Spread the word:

del.icio.us it!

See also:

BASSIANUS, JOANNES

BASSIANUS, JOANNES , See also:

ITALIAN

Italian jurist of the 12th See also:

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

century. Little is known of his origin, but he is said by Corolus de Tocco to have been a native of See also:

Cremona. He was a See also:

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

professor in the See also:

law school of See also:

Bologna, the 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 See also:

BULGARUS

Bulgarus (q.v.), and the See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of See also:

AZO (c. 1150-1230)

Azo (q.v.). The most important of his writings which have been preserved in his See also:

SUMMARY

Summary on the Authentica, which See also:

SAVIGNY, FRIEDRICH KARL VON (1779–1861)

Savigny regarded as one of the most See also:

PRECIOUS (O. Fr. precios, mod. precieux, Lat. pretiosus, of high value or price, pretium)

precious See also:

WORKS

works of the school of the See also:

GLOSS, GLOSSARY

Gloss-writers. Joannes, as he is generally termed, was remark-able for his See also:

TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent in inventing ingenious forms for explaining his ideas with greater precision, and perhaps his most celebrated See also:

WORK

work is his " Law-See also:

Tree," which he entitled Arbor Arborum, and which has been the subject of numerous commentaries. The work presents a tree, upon the branches of which the various kinds of actions are arranged after the manner of See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit. The See also:

CIVIL

civil actions, or actiones stricti See also:

JURIS

juris, being See also:

FORTY

forty-eight in number, are arranged on one See also:

side, whilst the equitable or praetorian ' actions, in number one See also:

HUNDRED

hundred and twenty-one, are arranged on the other side. A further scientific See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of actions was made by him under twelve heads, and by an ingenious See also:

SYSTEM

system of notation the student was enabled to class at once each of the civil or praetorian actions, as the See also:

case might be, under its proper See also:

head in the scientific division. By the side of the tree a few glosses were added by Joannes to explain and justify his See also:

CLASSIFICATION (Lat. classis, a class, probably from the root cal-, cla-, as in Gr. icaMce, clamor)

classification. His Lectures on the See also:

PANDECTS (Lat. pandecta, adapted from Gr. vrai ,crr)s, all-containing)

Pandects and the See also:

CODE (Lat. codex)

Code, which were collected by his pupil Nicolaus Furiosus,have unfortunately perished.

End of Article: BASSIANUS, JOANNES

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.

» Add information or comments to this article.

Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.

Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
BASSI, UGO (1800-1849)

[next]
BASSOMPIERRE, FRANCOIS DE (1579-1646)