Title: The Statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, first issued by His Majesty King Sigismund III in Krak\u00f3w in 1588, now reprinted for the fifth time by His Majesty King Augustus III […]
\nRelated works: The Tribunal Granted to the Citizens of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the Warsaw Sejm in the Year 1581; Coaequatio Jurium [Equalization of Rights] together with the Ordinance of the Tribunal; Constitutions of the General Ordinary Six-Sunday Sejm in Grodno in the Year of Our Lord MDCCXXVI.
\nPublisher: J.K.M. Akademicka Societatis Jesu Printing House, Vilnius (Constitutions: Warsaw\/Grodno)
\nYear of publication: 1744 (date on the entire block).
\nFormat: folio (2\u00b0), block height 32 cm.
\nVolume: Statute: 21 introductory pages, a copperplate portrait outside the pagination, p. 421, [1], p. 54 of registers; Tribunal: p. 30; Coaequatio Jurium: [5]; The Grodno Constitutions (1726): p. 62, p. 32.
\nBinding: original, period half-leather, with distinct stitching on the spine; a piece of leather is missing at the base of the spine.<\/p>\n
The Statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania\u2014here in its fifth edition, based on the canonical text of 1588\u2014regulated the political system as well as private, criminal, procedural, and fiscal law in the Lithuanian, Belarusian, and Ruthenian lands; It remained in force until 1840. Related legal acts comprise the complete body of constitutional law of the Grand Duchy: the Tribunal of 1581, establishing the highest noble court for Lithuania; the Coaequatio Jurium from the Sejm of 1697, which equalized the legal status of the Lithuanian and Crown nobility and introduced the Polish language into Lithuanian chancelleries; and finally, the Constitutions of the General Sejm in Grodno of 1726, from the time of the Polish-Saxon Union. The entire collection was printed in 1744 by the Jesuit Academic Press in Vilnius, one of the main printers of official documents for the Grand Duchy.<\/p>\n
The Code constitutes a comprehensive collection of the fundamental legal acts upon which the judiciary and administration of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were based in the first half of the 18th century\u2014it combines a general codification (the Statute) with constitutional laws and current legislation passed by the Sejm.<\/p>\n
On the title page, the page with the copperplate portrait, the back endpaper, and the endpapers, there are 18th-century notes in ink, including an extensive ownership inscription: \u201cStatute from the Book of Jacek Lanckoro\u0144ski… Chamberlain and Vice-Starost… 174…\u201d\u2014a trace of a private book collection.<\/p>\n
Condition: the leather is worn on the surface; there is a slight crack at the front hinge; the spine is missing some leather; inside the book block, there are old water stains on a dozen or so pages, with no damage to the paper; there are ownership inscriptions on the title page and the portrait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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