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an old book with a black and red title on itan old book with a brown cover sitting on top of a white surface
Jeschke Jádi Auctions Berlin

306 - Law - Law books
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Estimate €240 - €360
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Law - Law books Knipschildt, Philipp Tractatus de Fideicommissis familiarum nobilium. On ancestral estates. Or, on property set aside for the preservation of noble families. Useful and essential for all lawyers, legal experts, solicitors and notaries, and containing two very comprehensive indexes: one of chapters, the other of subjects and terms. Augustae Vindelicorum (Augsburg), by the heirs of Johannes Jacob Lotter, 1750. Title page, 14, 704, 103 pages, small quarto. Contemporary leather binding with gold embossing and red edging (slightly rubbed and bumped). Eighth and final edition. – Stintzing/L. II, 15. – ADB XVI, 298 – The most influential standard legal work on the law of family entailments (hereditary estates). The book describes how aristocratic family landholdings can be held undivided in a single family line across generations (usually by the eldest son, under the principle of primogeniture) in order to secure the economic status and social power of the house. An important practical guide in which Knipschildt skilfully combined Roman law (from which the concept of the fideicommissum originated) with German feudal and customary law. - With 2 bookplates on the endpaper and inside cover: 2 bookplates: Caspar Sebastia. Aloysi. de Iaquemod and the coat of arms of the noble von Roeklisch family. Slightly brown-stained. The most influential legal reference work on the law of family entailments (hereditary estates). The book describes how noble family landholdings can be held undivided within a single family for generations (usually by the eldest son, under the principle of primogeniture) in order to secure the economic status and social power of the house. An important practical guide in which Knipschildt skilfully combined Roman law (from which the concept of the fideicommissum originated) with German feudal and customary law. – With 2 bookplates on the endpaper and inside cover: 2 bookplates: Caspar Sebastia. Aloysi. de Iaquemod and the coat of arms of the noble von Roekl family. Slightly stained with brown. This lot is subject to standard taxation. A 24.95% buyer’s premium is payable on the hammer price, and 7% (Books and Art) or 19% VAT (Manuscripts, Screenprints, Offset Prints, Photographs) is payable on the final invoice amount within the European Union. This lot is subject to the standard tax regime. A 24.95% buyer’s premium applies to the hammer price, and 7% (books and art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, screen prints, offset prints and photographs) applies to the final invoice amount within the European Union.
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About the sale Valuable books, prints, historical photographs
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Auction time 10/24/2026 at 10:00 AM
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