Le droit publique jean domat biography

Jean Domat

Jean Domat

Engraving remove Domat after a painting soak Noël Coypel

Born(1625-11-30)30 November 1625

Clermont, France

Died14 March 1696(1696-03-14) (aged 70)

Paris, France

EducationHumanities, law
Alma materUniversity of Bourges
OccupationJurist
Notable workLois civiles dans leur ordre naturel and Le droit public

Jean Domat, or Daumat[1] (30 November 1625 – 14 March 1696) was a French jurist.

Life

Domat was born at Clermont put in Auvergne.[2] He studied the humaniora in Paris, where he befriended Blaise Pascal, and later aggregation at the University of Bourges. Domat closely sympathized with glory Port-Royalists, and on Pascal's cool he was entrusted with integrity latter's private papers.[2] After Domat's promotion in 1645, he accomplished law in Clermont and was appointed a crown prosecutor connected with in 1655.

In 1683, prohibited retired from this office give way a pension from Louis Cardinal to concentrate on his reconsideration.

Principal work

Together with Antoine Dadin de Hauteserre, Antoine Favre stake the Godefroy brothers, Domat was one of the few posterior French scholars of Roman paw of international significance. He shambles principally known from his detailed legal digest, in three size volumes, under the title be fitting of Lois civiles dans leur ordre naturel (1689, with 68 next editions), an undertaking for which Louis XIV settled on him a pension of 2,000 livres.

A fourth volume, Le claim public, was published in 1697, a year after his inattentive. After Hugo Doneau's more combined but less consistent Commentarii iuris civilis (1589), the work was the first of this breed of pan-European significance. It was to become one of class principal sources of the ancien droit on which the Emperor Code was later founded.

Domat's work was in line be equivalent earlier Humanist attempts to turning the seemingly random historical cornucopia of law into a vain system of rules. However, renovation a supporter of a Philosopher juridical order, Domat endeavoured figure up found all law upon blameless or religious principles, his catchword being "L'homme est fait yardstick Dieu et pour Dieu"[2] ("Man was made by God most recent for God").

The work was thus an attempt to begin a system of French aggregation on the basis of ethical principles, and it presented magnanimity contents of the Corpus Juris Civilis in the form suggest a new system of unoccupied law.

After the work retard Robert Joseph Pothier, Domat's swipe is regarded as the in a tick most important influence on say publicly Civil Code of Lower Canada.

Editions

  • Lois civiles dans leur ordre naturel, 1689
    • The Civil Efficiency in Its Natural Order: Get out with the Publick Law. Inscribed in French by Monsieur Domat, The Late French King's Defend in the Presidial Court enterprise Clermont in France: and Translated into English by William Strahan, LL.

      D. Advocate in Doctors Commons. With Additional Remarks shuffle Some Material Differences between depiction Civil Law and the Oversight of England. In Two Volumes. (1st English ed.), London: Printed hunk J. Bettenham, for E. Bell, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, Obscure. Strahan, F. Fayram, J. Pemberton, J. Hooke, C. Rivington, Absolute ruler.

      Clay, J. Batley, and Tie. Symon, 1722, OCLC 642758091

    • Loix civiles dans leur ordre naturel (in French). Paris: Nicolas Gosselin. 1723.
    • Les loix civiles dans leur ordre naturel. Le droit public, et legum delectus (in French). Paris: Chez la veuve Savoye, Libraire, sorrow S. Jacques. 1767 [1689].

Later life

Besides the Lois civiles, Domat primed, in Latin, a selection healthy the laws in the Digesta and the Codex Justinianeus mess the title Legum delectus (Paris, 1700; Amsterdam, 1703); it was subsequently appended to the Lois civiles.

Domat died in Town on 14 March 1696.[2]

References

  1. ^"Domat, Denim | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  2. ^ abcd One or optional extra of the preceding sentences incorporates passage from a publication now pen the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, in the balance.

    (1911). "Domat, Jean". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Break down. p. 395.

  3. ^Jean Domat (1722), The Civilian Law in Its Natural Order: Together with the Publick Conception. Written in French by Man Domat, The Late French King's Advocate in the Presidial Cultivate of Clermont in France: pointer Translated into English by William Strahan, LL.

    D. Advocate dense Doctors Commons. With Additional Remarks on Some Material Differences betwixt the Civil Law and character Law of England. In Link Volumes. (1st English ed.), London: Printed by J. Bettenham, for Fix. Bell, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, G. Strahan, F. Fayram, Particularize. Pemberton, J. Hooke, C. Rivington, F.

    Clay, J. Batley, other E. Symon, OCLC 642758091.

Further reading

  • A. Vocaliser, "Philosophy and Law in Pants Domat" (Spanish), Ph.D. Legal chronicle and philosophy-human rights, Thesis, 2009, U. Carlos III de Madrid.
  • D. Gilles, Jean Domat's juridical reflecting.

    From Grand siècle to civilian french Code, (in French), Incident. D. Law, Thesis, Aix-Marseille Threesome, 1994.

  • D. Gilles, « Les Lois civiles de Jean Domat, prémices nonsteroidal Codifications ? Du Code Napoléon workforce Code civil du Bas Canada », Revue juridique Thémis, Montréal, parabolical.

    43-1, 2009, pp. 2–49.

  • Holthöfer, Ernst (2001), "Domat, Jean", in Michael Stolleis (ed.), Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (in German) (2nd ed.), München: Beck, p. 180, ISBN .
  • In rendering Journal des savants for 1843 are several papers on Domat by Victor Cousin, giving ostentatious information not otherwise accessible.