D'AGUESSEAU (Henri François) – WORKS OF MR. CHANCELLOR D'AGUESSEAU Vol

D'AGUESSEAU (Henri François)

WORKS OF MR. CHANCELLOR D'AGUESSEAU t. I: Speeches for the opening of hearings, Mercuriales, Indictments and other speeches made on various occasions, Instructions on the studies proper to training a magistrate and other works on some of the objects of these studies (1759/1761 - CXLVII-622 p.); t. II [missing] t. III: Pleas delivered in Parliament in the capacity of Advocate General in the years 1694 and 1695, Two pleas, one from January 1696, the other from 1698, in the case of Mr. the Prince of Conti and Mrs. the Duchess of Nemours, and a plea from April 1696 in the case of Mr. the Duke of Luxembourg and the other dukes and peers (1762 - XXIV-822 p.); t. Vol. IV: Pleadings delivered in Parliament... since April 1696 and in the years 1697, 1698 and 1699 (1764 - XXX-737 pp.); Vol. V: Pleadings, memoirs, dissertations and other works (1767 - XXXII-752 pp.); Vol. VI: Several Petitions on land matters presented to Parliament in the capacity of Attorney General (1769 - XVI-773 pp.); Vol. VII: Several petitions and memoranda on land matters with various documents on the peerage (1772 - XLVIII-685 pp.); Vols. VIII and IX: Letters on criminal and civil matters (1774 / 1776 - XXIV-711 / XX-731 pp.); Vol. X: Continuation of letters on civil and criminal matters, considerations on currency, memoir on the actions of the East India Company, etc. (1777 - XVI-460-XII-316 p.); Vol. XI: Philosophical Meditations on the Origin of Justice, etc. (1779 - XVI-677 p.); Vol. XII: Philosophical and literary letters, memoirs on several matters of jurisprudence and various fragments, etc. (1784 - XXVIII-648-XLIX p.); Vol. XIII: Unpublished letters of Chancellor d'Aguesseau published under the auspices of His Excellency the Count de Peyronnet, Keeper of the Seals of France, Minister Secretary of State for the Department of Justice, by D.B. Rives, Director of Criminal Affairs and Pardons for the Department of Justice (1823 - CXVI p.-3 ff.-583 p.)

Édition :

Paris

Date :

1759 to 1823

12 volumes in-4, contemporary binding in full mottled fawn calf, gilt titles and volumes on burgundy paper and black background, rolls on the raised bands, gilt fleurons and friezes in compartments, (bindings rubbed with some scuffs and slight losses, some headcaps torn off, faded gilt for the volume numbers, scattered foxing and spotting).

Partly original edition of the works of Chancellor d'Aguesseau. The first volume here dates from the original (1759) but was printed in 1761; it does not include the Chancellor's portrait as a frontispiece. The twelfth volume is dated 1784 but has the same collation as the original 1783 edition. While it is unnecessary to introduce this author, we will nevertheless quote M.-F. Renoux-Zagamé (in Dictionnaire historique des jurists français, Paris, PUF, 2007): "His works [were] collected and edited for the most part by his sons. Known and used by the drafters of the Code, his writings, and in particular his legal briefs and pleadings, continued to inform the arguments of lawyers and the self-reflection of judges in the early decades of the 19th century." Their richness is a measure of the universality of the chancellor's qualities: besides the famous opening speeches, constantly reprinted, as well as the Instructions for Training a Magistrate, the Institution of Public Law (vol. I), one finds (vol. VIII) Metaphysical Meditations; various memoranda on particular legal questions (vol. XIII), the petitions delivered as Attorney General (vol. VI), and above all his principal pleadings (vols. II to VI) as well as the most important letters written as chancellor (vol. XII). Through these writings, what one can discern, because he undoubtedly brings it to its perfection, is the legal reasoning that constructed, and then operated, the old institutional and legal world.

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Mots-clés : Individual works, Ancient Law - History of Law