Pratica judicial muyto util, e necessaria para os que principiam os officios de julgar, & advogar, & para todos os que solicitam causas nos auditorios de hum, & outro foro, tirada de varios autores practicos, e dos estylos mais praticados nos auditorios. Primeyra parte, autor ... junto com a nova reformaçam da justiça, agora novamente impressa, correcta, & accrecentada com humas novas annotações, & a ley das assinaturas, & alçadas com seu index muyto copioso, atèqui não impresso ....

Lisbon, Na Officina de Joseph Lopes Ferreyra, 1712.. FIRST EDITION. Folio (30.5 x 21 cm.), contemporary speckled sheep (some rubbing and stains, small defect at top of spine label, a few pinpoint wormholes to spine and two slightly larger worm traces to rear cover near joint), spine gilt with raised bands in five compartments, black leather lettering piece in second compartment from head. Title page in red and black. Large woodcut ornament on title page. Woodcut and typographical headpieces. Woodcut tailpieces Large woodcut initials. Main text in two columns. Internally fine, overall in very good condition. Later (early nineteenth-century?) ownership signature in blank portion of title page ("Anº Guard. de Cast."?). Marginal note in the same hand on p. 125. (4 ll.), 174 pp., (5 ll. index). *** FIRST EDITION [?] of Part I of a popular and quite rare work on civil and criminal court cases. Complete within itself, it includes discussions on the qualities necessary for judges, prosecutors, lawyers, arbiters, and scribes. A lengthy section (about a third of the book) is on ecclesiastical courts. The index includes entries for assassins, exiles, men who slash with knives, slaves, murderers, and thieves. According to the title page, this edition includes a revised version of the "Nova Reformaçam da Justiça" with an index that had not previously been printed.Eventually Cabral published 5 parts, which first appeared together in Coimbra, 1730. Antonio Simões Ferreira published 2 additional parts; the 7 parts were published together in Coimbra, 1757, Lisbon, 1842, and even as late as Lisbon, 1862.The rarity of this work doubtless explains the confusion over its parts and dates. Porbase cryptically lists an edition of the first part of Lisbon, Off. Carlos Esteves Mariz, 1711, without collation and with only a short title, with a single location at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. The licenses of the present copy are from 15 January 1711 to 11 May 1712. According to Innocêncio, Parts I-V appeared in Lisbon, 1712 and 1727. Barbosa gives the dates for the separate parts as follows: Part I, Lisbon, 1712; Parts II-III, Lisbon, 1715; Part IV, Lisbon, 1721; Part V, Lisbon 1727; he also notes that all 5 parts were printed in Coimbra, 1730. Innocêncio states that Parts VI-VII, by Antonio Simões Ferreira, were printed in Coimbra, 1737 and 1750, and that the seven parts appeared together in Coimbra, 1757, and again in Lisbon, 1842.Antonio Valguerve Cabral earned his degree in civil law from the Coimbra University and practiced in Lisbon. Innocêncio, following Barbosa Machado, describes him as a native of Lisbon, but Innocêncio adds that he was juiz commissario in the bishopric of Miranda and ouvidor of the captaincy of Itamarca (Brazil). He abandoned magistracy as a career and devoted himself to the private practice of law.*** Innocêncio I, 282; VIII, 315. Barbosa Machado I, 409. Not located in Porbase, which cites other editions. No edition or part located in Jisc.