ACCURSIUS (Ital. AccoRso), FRANCISCUS (1182 1260), Italian jurist, was born at Florence about 1182. A pupil of Azo, he first practised law in his native city, and was after wards appointed professor at Bologna. He arranged into one body the almost innumerable comments and remarks upon the Code, the Institutes and Digests. This compilation, bearing the title Glossa ordinaria or magistralis, but usually known as the Great Gloss, though written in barbarous Latin, has more method than that of any preceding writer on the subject. The best edi tion of it is that of Denis Godefroi (1549--1621), published at Lyons in 1589. His eldest son, FRANCISCUS (1225-93), who also filled the chair of law at Bologna, was invited to Oxford by King Edward I., and in 1275 or 1276 lectured on law in the university.