This is the third volume of Gerard Meerman's monumental treatise on civil and canon law, containing a compendium of rare and valuable works by the best scholars of the day. Meerman, a Dutch jurist and bibliophile, spent his life collecting and studying legal texts from all over Europe, and his Thesaurus is regarded as one of the most important reference works on the subject. This volume covers a wide range of topics, from marriage and inheritance...