Simon van Groenewegen van der Made

Simon van Groenewegen van der Made (1613 to 1652) was a Dutch jurist, born in Delft. He studied law at Leiden, practised as an advocate in The Hague and from about 1645 served as city clerk of Delft, where he died on 5 July 1652. He gained renown as a commentator of Grotius, and above all for his Tractatus de legibus abrogatis et inusitatis in Hollandia vicinisque regionibus, a censura that indicated which parts of Roman law still applied in Holland and the neighbouring regions. That treatise remains the leading work on Roman law in the Netherlands.