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Hermanus Noordkerk

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Hermanus Noordkerk (New Latin: Hermanni Noordkerk; 28 January 1702 – 6 November 1771) was a Dutch lawyer and writer.

Works

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  • Specimen lectionum, seu Disquisitio de Lege Petronia (1731)[1]
  • Observationum decas: in quibus varia juris Romani capita exponuntur aut emendantur (1731)[2]

De Matrimoniis

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Hermanni Noordkerk: De Matrimoniis, Ob turpe Facinus, quod Peccatum Sodomiticum vocant, Jure Solvendis, Dissertatio. Amstekedami, Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios. M. D. CC.XXXIII [1733].

Small 8vo.; size of paper 6½ by 4¼, of letter-press 5¼ by 2¹³⁄₁₆ inches; pp. 116, with 12 unnumbered pages of title, dedication (to nine gentlemen), and preface; fleuron of a basket of flowers on the title-page.[3]

The work is divided into five chapters, of which the contents are briefly as follows:

  1. The author examines, in 13 paragraphs, the ancient laws, and those of the Middle Ages, and concludes that the law can never embrace all cases.[4]
  2. Whether the act of sodomy is a sufficient cause for divorce, considered in twelve paragraphs.[5]
  3. The ten paragraphs are devoted to the consideration of the effect which might be produced by the commission of sodomy before the solemnisation of marriage.[5]
  4. Is the absence or flight of the person suspected of sodomy sufficient cause for divorce? Seven paragraphs.[5]
  5. In 1733 the Dutch government had condemned those persons who were accused of sodomy and who had taken to flight. Can such fugitives be legally divorced? Eight paragraphs.[5]

Henry Spencer Ashbee, writing pseudonymously in 1885, gave the following assessment of this work: "The treatise has little or no value at present, but is nevertheless remarkable on account of the references and quotations, a few of which are in Dutch."[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Specimen lectionum, seu Disquisitio de Lege Petronia". WorldCat. OCLC 894887532.
  2. ^ "Observationum decas: in quibus varia juris Romani capita exponuntur aut emendantur". WorldCat. OCLC 28503141.
  3. ^ Ashbee 1885, p. 11.
  4. ^ Ashbee 1885, pp. 11–12.
  5. ^ a b c d e Ashbee 1885, p. 12.

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