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See also:CORNELIUS See also:VAN See also:BYNKERSHOEK (1673-1743) , Dutch jurist, was See also:born at Middleburg in See also:Zeeland . In the See also:prosecution of his legal studies, and while holding the offices first of member and afterwards of See also:president of the supreme See also:court, he found the See also:common See also:law of his See also:country so defective as to be nearly useless for See also:practical purposes . This abuse he resolved to reform, and took as the basis of a new See also:system the principles of the See also:ancient See also:Roman law . His See also:works are very voluminous . The most important of them are De foro legatorum (1702); Observationes See also:Juris Romani (1710), of which a continuation in four books appeared in 1733; the See also:treatise De Dominio See also:Maris (1721); and the Quaestiones Juris Publici (1737) . See also:Complete See also:editions of his works were published after his See also:death; one in See also:folio at See also:Geneva in 1761, and another in two volumes folio at See also:Leiden in 1766 . |
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