Jean-Marie Pardessus
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Jean Marie Pardessus (August 11, 1772 – May 27, 1853) was a French lawyer.
Life
He was born at Blois, and educated by the Oratorians, then studied law, at first under his father, a lawyer at the Presidial, who was a pupil of Robert Joseph Pothier. In 1796, after the Reign of Terror, Pardessus married, but his wife died after three years. A widower at the age of twenty-seven, he refused to remarry and give his children a stepmother.[1]
His Traité des servitudes (1806) went through eight editions, and his Traité du contrat et des lettres de change (1809) pointed him out as fitted for the chair of commercial law recently formed at the faculty of law at Paris. The emperor, however, had insisted that the position should be open to competition. Pardessus entered (1810) and was successful over two other candidates, André MJJ Dupin and Persil, who afterwards became brilliant lawyers.[1]
His lectures were published under the title Cours de droit commercial (4 volumes, 1813–1817). In 1815 Pardessus was elected deputy for the department of
He continued his collection of maritime laws (4 vols., 1828–1845), and published Les us et coutumes de la mer (2 volumes, 1847). He also brought out two volumes of
References
- ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911.
- Attribution
public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Pardessus, Jean Marie". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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