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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What is Antoine Loysel's Institutes coutumières?
A 1607 collection of 958 maxims that merged many French customs with Roman law.
The Institutes coutumières is Antoine Loysel's collection of 958 maxims of French customary law, which he wrote in 1607 after spending about 40 years on the collection. By merging the rules of many local customs with Roman law, Loysel set a foundation for French law.
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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.
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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.
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Antoine Loysel, Seigneur of Courroy, Fouilloy and Églantier was a French jurisconsult known for collecting the general principles of old French customary law.
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Antoine Loysel, Seigneur of Courroy, Fouilloy and Églantier was a French jurisconsult known for collecting the general principles of old French customary law.
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Wikidata Q2854177, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1536
Wikidata Q2854177, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1536-03-07
Wikidata Q2854177, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 1617
Wikidata Q2854177, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 1617-04-28
Wikidata Q2854177, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Beauvais
Wikidata Q2854177, P20 place of death claim
P20 (place of death): Paris
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