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CHAPTER FIVE
1606)19 and Johannes van Loenen († 1641)20. Another source of contemporary Roman- Dutch legal practice are the Consultatien, advyzen en advertissementen by Johannes Naeranus († ca. 1670)21 in which the author collected legal opinions from 'various outstanding legal scholars'.22 Thus, Naeranus' compilation also offers revealing information about how the Corpus iuris civilis-provisions, so hotly debated at Dutch universities, were put to practice.
In the northern province of Friesland, legal practice of the period also reached unprecedented heights of subtlety. In 1515, the province's capital Leeuwarden became the see of the Hof van Leeuwarden, an appellate Court that substituted the Great Council of Mechelen as the highest appellate court of Friesland.23 Many of its decisions have been preserved in compilations by Johannes van den Sande (1568-1638)24, Zacharias Huber (1669-1732)25, the son of Ulrik, Johannes Beucker (1680-1742), procurator to the Hof26, and Gajus Nauta († 1645)27.
Lastly, the High Court of Utrecht needs to be mentioned. One of its judges, Wilhelmus Radelantius (†1612)28, compiled 126 decisions taken by the Court which fulfilled the same function as its Dutch and Frisian equivalents, be it for a less significant area in terms of geography and population.29
5.1.2 Procedural law
Before continuing with the investigation of the substantial law governing defects in things exchanged for money, some words need to be said on the procedural changes which occurred in the early modern period and which are relevant for the interpretation of early modern Dutch law. Some significant changes in procedural law which concerned the law concerning defects in a thing exchanged for money was perceived is revealed in
'Coren, Jacob Gerritsz.', in: NNWB, vol. 2, pp. 332-333.
19 Nieustad, Vonnissen van den Hoogen, en provincialen Raad, van Holland, Zeeland en West-Vriesland,
1655; for biographical data W.M.C. Regt, 'Nieustad, Cornelis van', in: NNBW, vol. 2, p. 987. Nieustad in
Latin makes Neostadius.
20 Loenen, Decisien en observatien, 1712.
21 For biographical data see J.W. Enschedé, 'Naeranus, Johannes ', in: NNBW, vol. 2, pp. 973-975.
22 I am aware of the existence of more collections but these did not yield information relevant to the subject
of this thesis. I consulted Gall (ed.), Regtsgeleerde decisien. Aan de raadsheer Pieter Ockers toegeschreven aantekeningen betreffende uitspraken van het Hof (1656-1669) en de Hoge Raad (1669- 1678) van Holland, Zeeland en West-Friesland. For an overview see Meijers, 'Uitgegeven en onuitgegeven rechtspraak', pp. 400–422.
23 For specific categories of persons such as noblemen, professors and army officers the Court acted as a court of first instance. For details see Lokin, e.a., Het Rooms-Friese recht, pp. 16-20; Hempenius-van Dijk, Procesgids, pp. 11-12.
24 R. Visscher, 'Sande, Johannes van den', in: NNBW, vol. 4, pp. 1199-1200.
25 For biographical data see J. van Kuyk, 'Huber, Zacharias', in: NNBW, vol. 1, pp. 1168-1169.
26 For biographical data see De Haan Hettem and Van Halmael, Stamboek, vol. 2, p. 220; Zandberg, ‘De
familie Beucker Andreae’, p. 236.
27 Nauta, Decisien, 1779; For biographical data see G. A. Wumkes, 'Nauta, Gajus', in: NNBW, vol. 10,
p. 660.
28 For biographical data J. van Kuyk, 'Radelantius, Wilhelmus', in: NNBW, vol. 2, p. 1152.
29 Radelantius, Decisiones Posthumae Curiae Provincialis Traiectinae, Utrecht, 1637.
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