Antoine Loysel

Antoine Loysel (1536 - 1619) is famous a Jurisconsulte in Common law French. The family Loysel account of other famous members. The mother of Pierre Coustant was Loysel. Antoine remained in the memories of the lawyers to have collected the general principles of the old French common law.

Biography

Successor of Mill, it is regarded as the first " penseur" of French right. Studies of right to Toulouse where it meets Cujas that it will follow in Bourge. it is thus formed with the method of the Humanistic historians.

February 1560: receipt lawyer in Paris.
1564: Public prosecutor in Paris

Among its customers: the duke of Anjou, brother of Henri III, Catherine de Médicis, the house of Montmorency, the chapter of Notre-Dame de Paris…

It finishes its career as a public prosecutor close the Room of justice of Limoges. Loysel is a good follower of the mos Gallicus, method of the humanistic ones, but the practice will move away it from the study of Roman law and the History. he is politically a defender of the King and capacities of the King and thus will estimate that it is necessary that the right is that of the kingdom. He speaks initially about a French right before speaking about a " Universal right of our Royaume". He estimates that the habits are " finally reduced to conformity, reason of only one loi" , it draws its work " from it; institutes coutumières" in 1607 whose form is Romaine and usual bottom. Loysel will spend 40 years for this collection of 958 maxims. It is the expression of the French right in an elegant form. Thus it fixes the bases of the French Right by amalgamating the rules of many habits and Roman law.

Quotations

Formulas such as Loysel liked to find them to synthesize the Droit to a continuation of legal proverbs, for much still valid:

In marriage misleads which can.
Which can and does not prevent sins.
promised in marriage Fille is not taken nor left; because such is engaged which does not marry.
Do not judge a book by its cover, but the profession. Of the divisions, XXVII
To drink, eat, sleep together, it is marriage this seems to me.
One binds oxen by the horns and the men by the word.

Works

'' Institutes usual, handbook of several and various reigles, sentences, & proverbs as well old as modern of the droict more ordinary coustumier & of France '', 1608, by Antoine Loysel.

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