Antoine Loysel, seigneur of Courroy, Fouilloy and l'Eglantier, was a French jurist who lived from 16 February 1536 to 28 April 1617 and is remembered as the first great systematizer of French customary law. Born in Beauvais, he studied law at Toulouse under Jacques Cujas and followed his teacher to Bourges, was admitted as a lawyer in Paris in February 1560, and went on to serve as attorney general of Paris in 1564 and as public prosecutor at the Chamber of Justice in Limoges, numbering the Duke of Anjou, Catherine de Medici and the House of Montmorency among his clients. His major work, the Institutes coutumieres, published in 1607 after some forty years of labor, distilled the general principles of France's diverse regional customary laws into 958 concise maxims and fused customary rules with Roman law, earning him recognition as the successor to the jurist Charles Dumoulin and, in later estimation, the first true thinker of French law.
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