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[Law] MENOCHIO, Jacopo De praesumptionibus, conjecturis, signis et indiciis, commentaria, in sex distincta libros, & recens in lucem edita [...]. Geneva, S. de Tournes, 2 parts in 1 vol., folio: [182]-[4]-pp. (half-title missing, sl. browning, some light waterstaining in margin). Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine, red sprinkled edges (some staining). Rare later edition of this legal treatise (1st ed.: Venice, by the Italian jurist Menochio (1532-1607), where he justifies, among other things, the use of torture to obtain a confession from a detainee. Titles in red and black, large printer's device on titles and text in 2 columns. Ref. Opac SBN. - SUDOC. - Opac KBR. - Not in BnF.