Commentaries on the Last Two Titles of the Digest

The text continues as a direct address to Prince William-Frederick.
ROS MOST GENEROUS, with the record original: "tabulâ" set aside, I offer to you, while congratulating you upon the Increase of Felicity and the governance of the most flourishing Provinces of Groningen, Omland, and Drenthe—which you have attained through divine as well as human counsel—these Academic Exercises Exercitationes Cathedrarias professorial/academic lectures on the Rules. These are not the Rules of Faith and morals, which the sacred Code original: "Codex" of our Religion inculcates in all, but the rules of the art of equity and the good, of the just and the honest, from the most well-stocked