Azu'ni

Azu'ni, DOMENICO ALBERTO, a distinguished jurist, born at Sassari, in Sardinia, in 1749. He became judge of the Tribunal of Commerce at Nice; and in 1795 published a work in which he endeavoured to reduce maritime laws to fixed principles, and which appeared in French in 1805 under the title of Droit Maritime de l'Europe. Napoleon appointed him one of the commissioners for compiling the new commercial code. In 1807 he was appointed president of the Court of Appeal at Genoa. He published other minor works on maritime law, and a book on Sardinia. Ultimately he received a post at Cagliari, where he died 23d January 1827.