LOYSEAU, Charles.

by Charles Loyseau

£1,250 · Offered by Sokol Books

Important collection of three texts on public law by the French jurist Charles Loyseau (1564-1627), a lawyer in the Parlement of Paris and renowned social and legal commentator. Loyseau was born into a family of lawyers, his father being a favourite of Henri II and a lawyer at the Parlement of Paris. The editor of Loyseau s Oevures states in the introduction il a surpass é la plupart de nos jurisconsultes dans la science du droit romain, et aucun d'eux ne l'a surpass é dans la connaissance de cette partie de la jurisprudence française qui regarde le droit public . The three works included in the present volume are considered his most significant and valuable, notable for their clear and informed approach to the science of law and laws. Cinq Livres Du Droict Des Offices discusses the different offices of the French crown and what the roles entailed. Loyseau discusses offices in general, and then goes on to describe hereditary offices, venal offices, non-venal offices (the former became the office holders property, the latter did not) and finally offices of the Seigneurs. He approaches the discussions from a moralistic standpoint, stating: Ce go‚àö¬™t des offices est une esp√®ce de manie qui nous agite, car le mot ambition est d ésormais trop doux, bien qu invent é par les Romains pour signifier le d ésir immod ér é des offices; il en faut forger un autre pour nous et l appeler archomanie: la fureur d offices. In this phrase Loyseau first coined the term archomania , describing

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