Collection of Law Works (26 volumes) by Robert Joseph Pothier.
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Internet Archive: Robert Joseph Pothier and French law.
"Robert Joseph Pothier (1699-1772) was a French jurist and Judge of the Presidial Court of Orléans. He was born and passed away at Orléans. He studied law to qualify for the magistracy, and was appointed Judge in 1720 of the Presidial Court of Orléans, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. He held the post for fifty-two years.
Pothier paid particular attention to the correction and co-ordination of the text of the Pandects. His Pandectae Justinianae in novum ordinem digestae (Paris and Chartres, 1748–1752) is a classic in the study of Roman law. In 1749 he was made professor of law at the University of Orleans.
He wrote many learned monographs on French law, and much of his work was incorporated almost textually in the French Code Civil. His theories on the law of contract were influential in England as well as in the United States. Pothier devised a law limiting recovery in the case of improper performance of a contractual obligation to those damages which are foreseeable.
His wrote numerous treatises. His works have been published in collected form on several occasions, the first edited by Giffrein in 1820–1824. According to Janwillem Oosterhuis, 'like Domat, Pothier's methodology did not consist of constructing an ideal type of Natural law but rather the application of rationalistic methods to existing law, in particular Roman law and customary law.'"
"Robert-Joseph Pothier (1699–1772) was undoubtedly one of the most famous French jurists of the Ancien Régime. Following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, he became a magistrate at the Presidial court, a kind of court of appeal in Orléans. As a full professor at the university, he taught French law, a new subject imposed by royal legislation in 1679.
His work is notable in dealing with all the topics of private law. His method was the rationalization of law and its systematization. Pothier analyzed the main sources of law as the customs of Orléans, Roman law, and French law. Regarding this new field, he wrote more than thirty important books on many different question of private law. The importance of his conceptions influenced the fathers of the French Civil Code in 1804."
Select bibliography:
Coutume d'Orléans, Orléans, 1740; 1760.
Coutumes des duchè, bailliage et prévôté d'Orléans, et ressort d'iceux (in French). Paris: Jean Debure. 1772.
Traité des obligations (1761)
Du Contrat de vente (1762)
Du Contrat de bail (1764)
Du Contrat de société (1765)
Des Contrats de prêt de consomption (1766)
Du Contrat de depot et de mandat (1766)
Du Contrat de nantissement (1767)
Source: Wikipedia contributors. (2024, July 26). Robert Joseph Pothier. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved January 31, 2025, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Joseph_Pothier&oldid=1236704758
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