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GLOSSATOR. A commentator or annotator of the Roman law. One of the authors of the Gloss.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.
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The glossator adopted the view of Huguccio, and likewise listed the opposing view that was being rejected.
In fact he knows the works of medieval glossators and commentators, particularly the texts of Accursius, whose Great Gloss is presented by Prevost "comme base de travail" for the humanist.
the first of a long series of noted legal glossators and teachers of
Among the topics are medieval glossators as agents of language change, Sumerograms and phonetic complements in Hittite cuneiform, medieval Hebrew letters of the 11th century, the historical development of early Arabic documentary formulae, variation in a Norwegian 16th-century scribal community, and language change induced by written codes in Old Kanembu and Kanuri dialects.
Building on the writing of the glossators, many civilian systems draw a distinction between real subrogation in universalities and real subrogation relating to particular assets.
Beginning with Gregory, Dougherty then turns to the twelfth-century canon law scholar Gratian and his glossators, moves on to thirteenth-century thought with William of Auxerre, the tradition associated with Alexander of Hales in the Summa fratris Alexandri, Raymond Lull and Thomas Aquinas, and ends with the early fifteenth-century Thomist Johannes Capreolus.
Humanist glossators took this habit of reading history even further, applying it to "pagan" texts.
(14) The glossators, conversely, who as literary scholars were less interested in the visual representation of the scene, interpreted Malacoda's bugling as caused by his physical body.
Alaric Hall describes the problems of the Anglo-Saxon glossators and translators who were trying to render some concepts of classical Latin culture and mythology into Old English.
From 1100-1500AD, the glossators continued the evolution of Justinian's work.
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