Robert-Joseph Pothier - Coutumes des duchés, bailliage et prévôté d'Orléans et ressort d'Iceux - 1780

Robert-Joseph Pothier. Customary laws of the duchies, bailiwick and provostship of Orléans and jurisdiction of Iceux. Paris, Orléans, Dubure, Rouzeau-Montaut, 1780, xxxviii-892 pp.

One quarto volume (260x200 mm), full calf, ornately tooled spine with gold-tooled title piece in red morocco, red edges (binding of the period). Wear and rubbing on the boards and spine. Interior fresh, without foxing.

New edition of this study of the Orléans customary law by one of the leading French jurists of the eighteenth century.

Pothier does not merely reproduce the text of the custom: he accompanies it with a general introduction and with individual introductions placed before each title, in which he explains and develops the relevant legal principles.

Thus the work covers essential subjects of private law in the Ancien Régime: the status of persons and goods, property and possession, fiefs, succession, guardianship, marriage contracts, community between spouses, donations, testaments, debts, seizures and servitudes.