Antoine Loysel, Lord of Courroy, Fouilloy and Églantier, (February 16, 1536, Beauvais[1] – April 28, 1617,[1][2] Paris[3]), is a French jurist who is famous among jurists for having collected the general principles of old French customary law.

Biography

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Family and youth

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Son of Jean Loisel, alderman and advisor to the king elected in the election of Beauvais, and of Catherine d'Auvergne, Antoine Loisel is the brother of Philippe Loisel, civil and criminal lieutenant-general at the bailiwick of Senlis, master of the duke's requests from Anjou.

Antoine Loysel was prompted[1] to marry on August 2, 1563 with Marie de Goulas (1541–1595), first cousin of Nicolas Goulas, who is also the niece of King Dumesnil's lawyer. They had 12 children. Antoine is Guillaume Marescot's stepfather.

"He wanted to devote himself to medicine, as did his great-uncle Jean Loysel, physician to Louis XII and François I; " But his father would not, saying that between the danger to which doctors are forced to expose themselves from day to day, a doctor could only be a doctor instead of a lawyer could become president and chancellor."[4][1]

"In Toulouse, where his father sent him, Loysel meets Cujas, and this master, it is the pupil who confesses it to us,[1]" was the cause that he did not leave the science of law, of which the other doctors disgust him because of their barbarities."[4]

He was linked by an accomplice friendship to Pierre Pithou.[1]

He was, with Nicolas Bergeron , the executor of Ramus.[5]

Career

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Successor of Du Moulin, he is considered the first "thinker" of French law.

A disciple of Cujas, he follows him to Bourges. He was, therefore, trained in the method of the Humanist historians.

February 1560 : received lawyer in Paris. 1564: Attorney General in Paris

His clients included the Duke of Anjou, brother of Henry III, Catherine de Medici, the House of Montmorency, the chapter of Our Lady of Paris. He ended his career as a public prosecutor near the Chamber of Justice of Limoges.

Loysel was a good follower of mos gallicus, method of the humanists, but the practice would move him away from the study of Roman law and history. He is politically a defender of the king and the powers of the king and will, therefore, consider that the law must be that of the kingdom. He speaks first of a French law before speaking of a "Universal Law of our Kingdom". He believes that customs are "finally reduced to conformity, the reason for a single law", he wrote his work Institutes coutumières in 1607 whose form is Roman and the background customary.

Loysel spent 40 years on his collection of 958 maxims. It is an expression of French law in an elegant form. This is how he sets the foundations of French law by merging the rules of many customs and Roman law.

Quotes

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Formulas such as these Loysel liked to find to synthesize the law into a series of legal adages, for many still valid:

  • "Who wants the king, if the law wants." [6]
  • "Whoever makes the child must feed him."[7]
  • "Daughter betrothed is neither taken nor left; for such a fiance which does not marry."[8]
  • "In marriage deceives who can."[9]
  • "The habit does not make the monk, but the profession."[10]
  • "The oxen are bound by the horns, and the men by the words."[11]
  • "Enough done that makes do."[12]
  • "To all lords, all honors."[13]
  • "It is better to have one Yours than two, You will have it."[13]
  • "Once is not custom."[14]
  • "In crime, [there] is no guarantor."[15]
  • "It used to be said: 'To drink, to eat, to sleep together, [it] seems to me to be marriage', but the Church must go there."[16]
  • "Who sells the pot, says the word."[17]
  • "Who can and does not prevent sins."[18]

Works

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Customary institutes, 1607

Editions published between 1607 and 1846:

  • 1607 - Antoine Loysel, Institutes coutumières: Ou manuel de pluſieurs & diuerſes reigles, ſentences, & Prouerbes tant anciens que modernes du Droic‍t Couſtumier & plus ordinaire de la France, Paris , Abel L'Angelier ,1607, 1 st ed. , 80 p. (OCLC 829487475, notice BnF n o FRBNF30828453 , read on Wikisource )
  • 1608 - Antoine Loysel, Institutes coutumières: Ou manuel de pluſieurs & diuerſes reigles, ſentences, & Prouerbes tant anciens que modernes du Droic‍t Couſtumier & plus ordinaire de la France, Paris , Abel L'Angelier ,1608, 79 p. (OCLC 763879801, notice BnF n o FRBNF30828454 )
  • 1637 - Antoine Loysel, Institutes coutumières: Ou manuel de pluſieurs & diuerſes reigles, ſentences, & Prouerbes tant anciens que modernes du Droic‍t Couſtumier & plus ordinaire de la France, Paris ,1637, 4 th ed. , 79 p. ( OCLC 492825621, notice BnF n o FRBNF30828455 )
  • 1679 - Antoine Loysel, Institutes coutumières: Ou manuel de pluſieurs & diuerſes reigles, ſentences, & Prouerbes tant anciens que modernes du Droic‍t Couſtumier & plus ordinaire de la France, Paris ,1679, 7 th ed. (OCLC 43093703, notice BnF n o FRBNF30828456 , read on Wikisource )
  • 1710 - Antoine Loysel, Institutes coutumières: Avec des renvois aux Ordonnances de nos Rois, aux Coûtumes & aux Autheurs qui les ont commentées, aux Arrêts, aux anciens Pratticiens, & aux Hiſtoriens dont les regles ont été tirées, Paris ,1710, 8 th ed. (OCLC 84182748 , notice BnF n o FRBNF30828458 , read on Wikisource )( Antoine Loysel and Eusèbe Jacques de Laurière ( eds. ), Inſtitutes costumieres , vol. 1,1710 (OCLC 165672146 , read on Wikisource , read online [ archive ] ), Antoine Loysel and Eusèbe Jacques de Laurière ( eds. ), Inſtitutes costumieres , vol. 2,1710 (OCLC 165672150, read on Wikisource , read online [ archive ] ))
  • 1758 - Antoine Loysel, Institutes coutumières: Avec des renvois aux Ordonnances de nos Rois, aux Coûtumes & aux Autheurs qui les ont commentées, aux Arrêts, aux anciens Pratticiens, & aux Hiſtoriens dont les regles ont été tirées, Paris , Durand,1758, 9 th ed. (OCLC 457538619, notice BnF n o FRBNF30828459 )( Customary Intitutes , vol. 1, Customary Intitutes , vol. 2)
  • 1783 - Antoine Loysel, Institutes coutumières: Avec des renvois aux Ordonnances de nos Rois, aux Coûtumes & aux Autheurs qui les ont commentées, aux Arrêts, aux anciens Pratticiens, & aux Hiſtoriens dont les regles ont été tirées, Paris, Durand,1783, 10 th ed. (OCLC 902289863, notice BnF n o FRBNF39372794 )(Institutes coutumières, vol. 1, Institutes coutumières, vol. 2)
  • 1846 - Antoine Loysel, André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin ( dir. ) And Édouard Lefebvre de Laboulaye ( dir. ), Institutes coutumières': Ou manuel de plusieurs et diverses règles, sentences et proverbes, tant anciens que modernes du droit coutumier et plus ordinaire de la France[[, Paris, Durand,1846, 13 th ed. (OCLC 486218798, notice BnF n o FRBNF30828462 , read on Wikisource )( Antoine Loysel, Customary institutes , vol. 1,1846 ( read on Wikisource ), Antoine Loysel, Institutes coutumières, vol. 2,1846 ( read on Wikisource ))

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Charles-Louis-Étienne Truinet (1852). imprimerie C. Lahure (ed.). Éloge d'Antoine Loysel prononcé à la séance d'ouverture de la conférence de l'ordre des avocats, le 9 décembre 1852. Paris.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ Notice de Institutes coutumières, manuel de plusieurs et diverses reigles, sentences, & proverbes du droit coutumier & plus ordinaire de la France par Gallica
  3. ^ "Antoine Loisel (1536-1617)". data.bnf.fr (in French)..
  4. ^ a b Joly Vie de Loysel
  5. ^ "Élèves et collaborateurs · Ramus, philosophe, humaniste, réformateur des arts et des sciences · NuBIS". nubis.univ-paris1.fr. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
  6. ^ Loysel 1607, livre I, titre I, I.
  7. ^ Loysel 1607, livre I, titre I, XXXIII.
  8. ^ Loysel 1607, livre I, titre II, I.
  9. ^ Loysel 1607, livre I, titre II, III.
  10. ^ Loysel 1607, livre II, titre V, XXVII.
  11. ^ Loysel 1607, livre III, titre I, II.
  12. ^ Loysel 1607, livre III, titre II, I.
  13. ^ a b Loysel 1607, livre IIII, titre III, XXXVI.
  14. ^ Loysel 1607, livre IIII, titre IIII, VII.
  15. ^ Loysel 1607, livre V, titre V, VII.
  16. ^ Loysel 1679, livre I, titre II, VI.
  17. ^ Loysel 1679, livre III, titre IV, I.
  18. ^ Loysel 1679, livre VI, titre I, IV.

Bibliography

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  • Jean-Luc A. Chartier, Loisel. Avocat du roi (1536-1617) , Paris, 2019, 203 p.
  • Charles-Louis-Étienne Truinet, "Éloge d'Antoine Loysel prononcé à la séance d'ouverture de la conférence de l'ordre des avocats, le 9 décembre 1852", Paris, C. Lahure, December 1852, 32 p. , In-8º
  • S. de Beaufort, Une famille de lieutenants généraux du bailliage de Senlis aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, les Loysel, Senlis archaeological committee, 1899
  • Nègre Desrivières, Notes généalogiques sur la famille Loysel, Loisel, L'Oisel (Avis), seigneurs de Quévremont, de Flambermont, d'Exonviller, etc - XVe, XVe et XVIIe siècles, Archaeological Committee of Senlis, 1899
  • Armand Demasure, Antoine Loisel et son temps (1536-1617), Thorin, 1876