Author: Domat, Jean (1625-1696; William Strahan, translator Title: The CIVIL Law in Its Natural Order: Together with the Publick Law. Written in French by Monsieur Domat, the Late French King's Advocate in the Presidial Court of Clermont in France: And Translated Into English by William Strahan, LL. D. Advocate in Doctors Commons. With Additional Remarks on Some Material Differences between the CIVIL Law and the Law of England. In Two Volumes... First Edition.
Description: London: Printed by J. Bettenham, for E. Bell, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, G. Strahan, F. Fayram, J. Pemberton, J. Hooke, C. Rivington, F. Clay, J. Batley, and E. Symon, London, M. DCC. XXII. [1722]. Small folios. 19.3 x 32.5cm. Contemporary panelled calf, with modern calf spines. Very good; foxing to first few pages.. No actual books in OCLC. Holdsworth, History of English Law XII:428. Marvin, Legal Bibliography 271. English Short-Title Catalogue T96069....Collation: Vol I: [36], lxxi, 696pp; vol II: 664, [16] pp..Jean Domat (1625-1696), one of the most celebrated jurists of Louis XIV’s reign, helped lay the foundations for French civil law.In his work, originally published in French in 1689 as "Lois Civiles dans leur Ordre Naturel,: Domat proposes a fault-based model for liability grounded in the rational deduction of self-evident principles. In The Civil Law in its Natural Order, Domat set out to reorganize French customary law in a way that would be consistent with Cartesian thought while remaining grounded in both Christian morality and Roman law.[ From this framework, Domat was able to establish his first premise—that social order and stability were essential to man—and from that premise he derived what he believed were the primary rules of society.After initial publication in 1689, Lois Civiles dans leur Ordre Naturel was translated into English in 1722 as Civil Law in the Natural Order. The title influenced civil law across the world and the 1722 translation was influential in shaping the thoughts and opinions the American founders......Provenance: Estate of Joaquin Romero Maura. Mr Maura, great-grandson of a five-time prime minister of Spain, lived in the UK for most of his life and co-directed the Iberian Centre with the illustrious historian Sir Raymond Carr... Joaquín Romero Maura – died lin June 2022 at the age of 81, at a senior home in Zaragoza, Spain. The historian – who held a PhD from Oxford University – was widowed and childless. He had been a confidante of the former Spanish king...Joaquín Romero Maura (Niza, 1940-Zaragoza, 5 de junio de 2022) fue un historiador español. Destacó por su obra La rosa de fuego, un estudio sobre el obrerismo barcelonés de la primera década del siglo xx..Heavy book. .
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