COQUILLE (Guy)
    Institutions under French Law, 1st edition
Édition :
    Paris
Date :
    1623
    octavo, full calfskin.
    (Dupin No. 551). 2nd edition and 1st octavo edition of Coquille's "Institutions of French Law." Coquille, a jurist from Nivernais (1523-1603), is, along with Cujas and Dumoulin, one of the three most important French jurists of the 16th century. "Institutions of French Law" is his principal theoretical work. Within the context of the 16th-century legal renaissance, he demonstrates that Roman law is not intended to be applied in France as the common law. It possesses no inherent authority there. At most, it is permissible to resort to it when a question arises that neither customs nor ordinances can answer: "Roman law is used by reason, not by necessity." In this, he agrees with Dumoulin, from whom he nevertheless differs in believing that the common law of France should be sought in the entirety of customs and ordinances, without privileging the Custom of Paris. The debate between Dumoulin and Coquille is therefore a debate between a centralist and a more decentralized conception of law. Beyond this general theory, the institutions of French law make an essential contribution to many branches of law (see P. Petaut, Histoire du droit privée français - la famille-, Loisel 1992; see A.M. Patault, Introduction historique au droit des biens, PUF 1989).

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