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Definition of Glossators
1. glossator [n] - See also: glossator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glossators
Literary usage of Glossators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roman Law in the Modern World by Charles Phineas Sherman (1922)
"Not only did the glossators elucidate the letter of the law: they also reconciled
contradictions ... The consequence of the labors of the glossators was a ..."
2. The Institutes: A Textbook of the History and System of Roman Private Law by Rudolf Sohm, Bernhard Erwin Grüber (1907)
"The success with which the Bolognese School of glossators worked this method ...
The credit of having founded the School of glossators has been assigned to ..."
3. The History of Roman Law from the Text of Ortolan's Histoire de la by Joseph-Louis-Elzéar Ortolan (1871)
"The first series, that of the glossators, closes about the year 1260 with ...
Thus, next to the glossators, who had flourished for one hundred and sixty ..."
4. The Science of Jurisprudence: A Treatise in which the Growth of Positive Law by Hannis Taylor (1908)
"Problem confronting French jurists. Work of the glossators. ... An account has
been given heretofore of the work of the glossators through whose labors the ..."
5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"... etc., who were hence called glossators, of which glosses Accursius made a
compilation which possesses great authority, called glossa ordinaria. ..."
6. The Continental Legal History Series by Association of American Law Schools (1912)
"(a) The glossators.1 — The method by which the Bologna jurists worked on these
texts was known as the Gloss, or textual interpretation. ..."
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