HYPERTEXTUAL DIGESTO – CD
(Digesto Ipertestuale – CD)

RIGHTS AVAILABLE, 2000

Technical features
2000 entries
3500 laws
20000 sentences

The publication
The Digesto was first published in 1884.Today, whoever has a copy of the work owns a small bibliographic treasure. It began life as an account of the new legal codes of the united Italy and as an overall review of the country’s legislation; it was certainly the first Italian judicial encyclopaedia. As such, it has grown alongside the evolution of the judi-cial system of the post-unification state, instrumental in the birth of the corporate insti-tutes in the Thirties, and from 1956, the faithful witness of the new Italy which emerged from the Republican Constitution.The fourth edition of the Digesto was added to the three existing series in the Eighties. This was aimed at those professionals who could not afford to focus only on the traditional areas of the law, but who felt the need to to be thoroughly acquainted with the new judicial phenomena increasingly pre-sent on the legal scene. The success of the fourth edition of the Digesto has been the driving force behind UTET’s latest development: the Digesto Ipertestuale. Aware of the necessity to equip legal professionals with means of reference that com-bine doctrinal analysis with judicial and legislative materials, we have created a work with an enormous amount of content and the minimum of bulk: a compact disk con-taining every relevant entry on civil, commercial, penal, public and administrative law (approximately 2000), almost all of which can be consulted directly by the reader via the links in the commentaries. This means that all users, through a simple command to their computers, can have access to the most important selection of jurisprudence and legislation quoted in the text. Materials can be selected according to High Court sentences (from 1960) and on merit (from 1980). Legislation is always given in its current version, so as to avoid excruciatingly long consultation of the texts. The commentaries have been edited according to a systematic revision of the most important entries in the fourth edition of the Digesto whose redefinition for computer use has entailed the formation of a pool of jurists co-ordinated by Pier Giuseppe Monateri. Some entries have been completely re-written, due to the radical reforms implemented; others have been so revised that they appear to be completely new. The publication will be completed with the release of entries regarding penal and public law, forming a legal corpus that all legal profession-als will be able to consult.

The Author
Pier Giuseppe Monateri is Professor of Civil Law at the University of Turin. For UTET he has also published La responsabilità contrattuale e precontrattuale, Il danno alla persona (both in the Casistica Giuridica Pratica series), and La responsabilità civile in the Trattato di diritto civile edited by Rodolfo Sacco.