‎GROENEWEGEN VAN DER MADE, S. ‎
‎Tractatus de legibus abrogatis et inusitatis in Hollandia vicinisque regionibus. ...... Editio tertia ab Auctore ante obitum recognita & plurimis in locis aucta.‎

‎Amstelædami, Apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge, 1669. Title-page in red and black and with a charming vignette. Two parts in one volume, continuously paginated (44), 932 (misnumbered 928) pp. 4to. Contemporary blindstamped vellum. Dekkers p. 68. Third edition. Simon Groenewegen van der Made was born in Delft in 1613. After studies at Leyden he practised at the bar and later became secretary of the town of Delft, where he died in 1652. He edited the Inleidinge tot de Hollandsche Rechtsgeleerdheid of Hugo Grotius with annotations of his own (Dordrecht 1644 and later editions) and wrote Tractatus de legibus abrogatis et inusitatis in Hollandia vicinisque regionibus which was first published at Leyden in 1649. The Tractatus discusses what parts of the Corpus juris had been abrogated in Holland and became an important and influential work. It is amongst the authorities listed by Hahlo and Kahn in their chapter on the Sources of South African Law. Groenewegen endeavoured to connect the practice of law and academical law. This work, in fact a forerunner in scholarly law practice, was often reprinted. ‎

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