Robert Joseph Pothier (9 January 1699 – 2 March 1772) was a French jurist .
10-1550: Pothier is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Robert Joseph Pothier (1699–1772), French jurist and writer on contract law Toussaint Pothier (1771–1845) Canadian businessman, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada Dom Joseph Pothier , O.S.B. (1835–1923), French prelate, liturgist and scholar of Gregorian chant Aram J. Pothier (1854–1928), American banker and Governor of Rhode Island Albert A. Pothier (fl. 1890s) Nova Scotia Assemblyman Lucien Pothier (1883–1957), French racing cyclist Hector J. Pothier (1891–1976), Canadian physician and Assemblyman in Nova Scotia Lucien Pothier (wrestler) (born 1894, date of death unknown), Belgian Olympic wrestler Yvonne Pothier (born 1937), Canadian mathematics educator, Catholic nun, and activist for refugees Hector Pothier (born 1954), Canadian football player Fabrice Pothier (born 1975), French political expert Brian Pothier (born 1977), American NHL ice hockey player Eric Pothier (born 1979), Canadian luger Ahumuza Pothier Alexandria (born 2019), Ugandan See also [ edit ] Pothier House , Rhode Island, historic residence of Aram Pothier 18830 Pothier , an asteroid See also [ edit ] Potier Pottier [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
20-479: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Robert Joseph Pothier He was born and passed away at Orléans . He studied law to qualify for the magistracy, and was appointed Judge in 1720 of the Presidial Court of Orléans, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. He held the post for fifty-two years. Pothier paid particular attention to the correction and co-ordination of
30-569: The Port-Royalists , and on Pascal's death he was entrusted with the latter's private papers. After Domat's promotion in 1645, he practised law in Clermont and was appointed a crown prosecutor there in 1655. In 1683, he retired from this office with a pension from Louis XIV to concentrate on his scholarship. Together with Antoine Dadin de Hauteserre , Antoine Favre and the Godefroy brothers , Domat
40-411: The surname Pothier . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pothier&oldid=1257519591 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
50-513: The United States. Pothier devised a law limiting recovery in the case of improper performance of a contractual obligation to those damages which are foreseeable. His wrote numerous treatises. His works have been published in collected form on several occasions, the first edited by Giffrein in 1820–1824. According to Janwillem Oosterhuis, "like Domat , Pothier's methodology did not consist of constructing an ideal type of Natural law but rather
60-573: The application of rationalistic methods to existing law, in particular Roman law and customary law." Jean Domat Jean Domat , or Daumat (30 November 1625 – 14 March 1696) was a French jurist . Domat was born at Clermont in Auvergne . He studied the humaniora in Paris , where he befriended Blaise Pascal , and later law at the University of Bourges . Domat closely sympathized with
70-599: The text of the Pandects . His Pandectae Justinianae in novum ordinem digestae (Paris and Chartres, 1748–1752) is a classic in the study of Roman law . In 1749 he was made professor of law at the University of Orleans . He wrote many learned monographs on French law , and much of his work was incorporated almost textually in the French Code Civil . His theories on the law of contract were influential in England as well as in
80-592: The work was the first of this type of pan-European significance. It was to become one of the principal sources of the ancien droit on which the Napoleonic Code was later founded. Domat's work was in line with earlier Humanist attempts to transform the seemingly random historical sources of law into a rational system of rules. However, as a supporter of a Cartesian juridical order, Domat endeavoured to found all law upon ethical or religious principles, his motto being " L'homme est fait par Dieu et pour Dieu " ("Man
90-645: Was made by God and for God"). The work was thus an attempt to establish a system of French law on the basis of moral principles, and it presented the contents of the Corpus Juris Civilis in the form of a new system of natural law . After the work of Robert Joseph Pothier , Domat's work is regarded as the second most important influence on the Civil Code of Lower Canada . Besides the Lois civiles , Domat prepared, in Latin,
100-512: Was one of the few later French scholars of Roman law of international significance. He is principally known from his elaborate legal digest, in three quarto volumes, under the title of Lois civiles dans leur ordre naturel (1689, with 68 later editions), an undertaking for which Louis XIV settled on him a pension of 2,000 livres . A fourth volume, Le droit public , was published in 1697, a year after his death. After Hugo Doneau 's more thorough but less consistent Commentarii iuris civilis (1589),
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