Practice

Rota Januensis 

Decisiones Rotae Genuae de mercatura et pertinentibus ad eam. Omnibus tam in foro versantibus, quam de iure respondentibus, caeterisque iuris studiosis perutiles, et quam maxime necessariae ...
Venetiis, [Francesco Ziletti], 1582

The Civil Rota of the Oligarchic Republic of Genoa was created in 1529. It was founded as a court specialized in mercantile matters, made up of five foreign legal scholars. It had a wide-ranging jurisdiction to judge commercial and banking affairs, as well as matters related to navigation and bankruptcies. Its judges were experts in Roman law and their impact on mercantile customs produced a theoretical and practical jurisprudence of great value, since it was able to originally develop the typical institutes of commercial law. The collection of de mercatura sentences, a selection of its motivated rulings that soon became auctoritates to be quoted, was published in 1582. The work was very successful, bringing prestige and fame to the Genoese Rota, projecting it into the broader context of European doctrine and jurisprudence.

Ansaldi, Ansaldo

Discursus legales, de commercio, et mercatura: in quibus universa fere commercii, et mercaturæ materia resolutive continetur. Cum indice argomentorum, causarum, materiarum, et rerum opulentissimo
Coloniæ Allobrogum, apud fratres De Tournes, 1698

Ansaldo Ansaldi, from Florence, was a lawyer and rotal judge in Rome. In 1689 he published his Discursus legales de commercio et mercatura, where he focused on 100 cases of commercial law, taken from the Tuscan procedure of the previous years.

Casaregi, Giuseppe Maria Lorenzo
Discursus legales de commercio in duos tomos distributi in quibus fusissime tractantur materiae concernentes assecurationes ... Nec non Consolatus Maris cum explicatione ejusdem authoris ultra. In hac secunda editione tomi primi a pluribus praeli mendis expurgata, accessere primae ditissimae additiones ad finem fere omnium discursuum
Florentiae, typis Regiae Celsitud. : apud Jo. Cajetanum Tartinium et Sanctem Franchium, typis Bernardi Paperini, 1719-1739

Lorenzo Maria Casaregi (1670-1737), from Genoa, was a lawyer in his city and then Rota judge in Siena and Florence. In 1707 he published a collection of materials taken from his professional experience, entitled Discursus legales de commercio. Republished several times with important additions, it contains his legal opinions and some sentences from the Florentine Rota, always on mercantile issues (especially foreign exchange, insurance and bills of exchange). His aim was to make useful sources available for legal practice. Casaregi, updated in the most recent theories of French, German and Dutch doctrine, undoubtedly succeeded in his intent: his work was widely disseminated until the late 18^th century.