MENOCHUS, vulgarly MENOCHIA, (James), a famous lawyer, meanly born at Pavia, but who became so skilful in the law, that he was called the Baldus and Bartholus of his age; all the princes of Italy soliciting him to their universities. He read at Padua 23 years together; and for love of his country removed to Pavia, and succeeded Nicholas Gratiani. He hath got an immortal fame by his works, De recuperanda possessione; De adipiscenda possessione; De presumptionibus; De arbitrariis Judicium questionibus & causis conciliorum, tom. 13. &c. He died in 1607, aged 75.