Jean Domat
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Jean Domat | |
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Born | Clermont, France | 30 November 1625
Died | 14 March 1696 Paris, France | (aged 70)
Education | Humanities, law |
Alma mater | University of Bourges |
Occupation | Jurist |
Notable work | Lois civiles dans leur ordre naturel and Le droit public |
Jean Domat, or Daumat (30 November 1625 – 14 March 1696) was a French jurist.
Life
Domat was born at
Principal work
Together with
Domat's work was in line with earlier Humanist attempts to transform the seemingly random historical sources of law into a rational system of rules. However, as a supporter of a Cartesian juridical order, Domat endeavoured to found all law upon ethical or religious principles, his motto being "L'homme est fait par Dieu et pour Dieu"[1] ("Man was made by God and for God"). The work was thus an attempt to establish a system of French law on the basis of moral principles, and it presented the contents of the Corpus Juris Civilis in the form of a new system of natural law.
After the work of Robert Joseph Pothier, Domat's work is regarded as the second most important influence on the Civil Code of Lower Canada.
Editions
- Lois civiles dans leur ordre naturel, 1689
- 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, rue S. Jacques. 1767 [1689].
Later life
Besides the Lois civiles, Domat prepared, in Latin, a selection of the laws in the
References
- ^ a b c d public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Domat, Jean". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 395. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- OCLC 642758091.
Further reading
- A. Iglesias, "Philosophy and Law in Jean Domat" (Spanish), Ph.D. Legal history and philosophy-human rights, Thesis, 2009, U. Carlos III de Madrid.
- D. Gilles, Jean Domat's juridical thought. From Grand siècle to civil french Code, (in French), Ph. D. Law, Thesis, Aix-Marseille III, 1994.
- D. Gilles, « Les Lois civiles de Jean Domat, prémices des Codifications ? Du Code Napoléon au Code civil du Bas Canada », Revue juridique Thémis, Montréal, n. 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 3-406-45957-9.
- In the Journal des savants for 1843 are several papers on Domat by Victor Cousin, giving much information not otherwise accessible.