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Author Kim, Marie Seong-Hak, author.

Title Custom, law, and monarchy : a legal history of early modern France / Marie Seong-Hak Kim
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Cover -- Custom, Law, and Monarchy: A Legal History of Early Modern France -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- 1: Introduction -- 1. State of the Question -- Concept of Custom -- Royal Sovereignty and Law -- Revisiting the Absolute Monarchy -- 2. French Legal History and Historiography -- 3. Structure of the Book -- 2: Custom in Late Medieval France -- 1. Sources of Law -- The Growth of Royal Courts -- Justice and Administration -- Proof of Custom -- Medieval Doctrine of Custom -- Doctors and Practitioners -- Custom and Reason -- 2. Theories and Debates -- Droit Commun de France -- Private Law and Political Power -- 3. Courts and Litigants -- 3: The Redaction of Customs -- 1. Ordinance of Montils- lès- Tours (1454) -- 2. Launching the Royal Campaigns -- Enlisting the Estates -- Royal Campaigns in the Early Sixteenth Century -- 3. Humanist School of Law -- Legal Humanism -- Jus Commune and Jus Proprium -- 4. Dumoulin and the Oracles of Law -- Commentaries on the Custom of Paris -- Union and Concord of the Customs of France -- 5. Vers la réformation -- 4: The Reformation of Customs -- 1. De Thou's Tour de Force -- Assembly of the Estates and Royal Commissioners -- Custom Becomes Perpetual Law -- 2. La Coutume de Paris (1580) -- 3. From Consultative to Absolute Monarchy -- Gaining Hearts, Reining in Privileges -- "C'est le peuple qui fait la loi" -- 4. Enter the Lawyers -- 5: La Coutume and la Législation -- 1. Contents of Customs -- Inheritance and Settlement -- Bringing in Reason and Equity -- Representation in Succession -- Légitime -- Gifts and Sales -- Curbing Feudal Privileges -- 2. Custom in the Courtroom -- The Case of La Rochelle (1566) -- The Case of Amiens (1567) -- 3. L'Hôpital's Laws -- Simplifying Procedures -- Streamlining Substantive Laws -- Edict of Second Marriages (1560)
Substitutions -- Instruments of Contract and Testament -- Edict of Mothers (1567) -- 4. Religious Wars and Legal Reforms -- 6: The Idea of "Our French Law" -- 1. Doctrine and Humanist Nationalism -- The Conflict of Laws -- Le droit commun coutumier -- The Coutume de Paris and a Common Law of France -- 2. Jurisprudence as a Source of Law -- Arrêt de règlement and Judicial Secrecy -- Roman Law as Raison écrite -- 3. Legislation and Legal Unity -- Hotman's Antitribonian -- Legal Institutions and Political Authority -- 7: The Crown and the Constitution -- 1. The King and His Judges -- Interpretatio legis, or Équité -- Parlements and Royal Legislation -- Parlements and Patriarchy -- 2. Venality of Offices -- Jurisprudence on Venality -- Public Office and Private Law of Obligations -- 3. Custom and Constitutional Theory -- Bodin and the True Marks of Sovereignty -- Le Caron Defines Coutume and Loy -- 8: De la Coutume au Code Civil -- 1. Civil Law and Civil War -- Two Perceptions of Royal Justice: L'Hôpital and de Thou -- Judges and the Religious Wars -- 2. The Life and Destiny of the Coutumes -- The Classical Age -- The Enlightenment -- 3. The French Deviation -- 9: Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Custom, Law, and Monarchy explores how law evolved in early modern France, from an amalgam of customs, Roman and canon law, royal edicts, and judicial decisions, to the unified Civil Code of 1804. In exploring the history of this codification of law, Marie Seong-Hak Kim lays out a new way of understanding French history
Ancien regime France did not have a unified law. Legal relations of the people were governed by a disorganized amalgam of norms, including provincial and local customs (coutumes), elements of Roman law and canon law that together formed jus commune, royal edicts and ordinances, and judicial decisions, all coexisting with little apparent internal coherence. The multiplicity of laws and the fragmentation of jurisdiction were the defining features of the monarchical era. A key subject in European legal history is the metamorphosis of popular customs into customary law, which covered a broad spectrum of what we call today private law. This book sets forth the evolution of law in late medieval and early modern France, from the thirteenth through the end of the eighteenth century, with particular emphasis on the royal campaigns to record and reform customs in the sixteenth century. The codification of customs in the name of the king solidified the legislative authority of the crown, the essential element of the absolute monarchy. Achievements of French legal humanism brought French custom and Roman law together to lay the foundation for the French law. The Civil Code of 1804 was the culmination of these centuries of work. Juristic, political, and constitutional approaches to the early modern state allow an understanding of French history in a continuum
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Electronic resource, viewed: June 26, 2023
Subject Law -- France -- History
Customary law -- France -- History
Law -- France -- Codification -- History
Customary law
Law
Law -- Codification
France
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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