Jean Domat

Jean Domat , or Daumat (November 30th 1625 - March 14th 1696), French jurisconsult, born with Clermont-Ferrand in Auvergne.

He was lawyer of the king to the Présidial of Clermont, and devoted all his life to the study of the Jurisprudence. Compatriot and friend of Blaise Pascal, Domat was like him enthusiastic Janséniste, which did not prevent Louis XIV from pensioning it.

The Roman law before him was a true chaos: it carried the light there by replaçant the Roman laws in their natural order, and by pruning all that in these laws was absolutely foreign with our manners and our uses.

Its more important works are:

civil Laws in their natural order (1689), 3 volumes, for which it received a pension of the king of 2.000 books.
the Public law (1697). the 4th volume of the Public law , it appeared one year after its death.
Legum delectus , choice of the most usual laws contained in the collections of Justinien.

These various works were reprinted together:

Paris, 1717, in-fol. ;
then with additions of Louis de Héricourt, Paris, 1723, 2 volumes in-fol. ;
with ies notes of Benoit the Usurer of Bouchevret, Claude Berroyer and Louis Knight, 1745, 2 volumes;
and finally with the supplement of Louis-François de Jouy, 1755 - 1767, and 1777, 2 volumes in-fol. ;
they were reprinted in 1828 - 1830, by Joseph Rémy, with the corresponding articles of our codes.

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