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CORNELIUS VAN BYNKERSHOEK (1673-1743)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 896 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORNELIUS
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VAN
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BYNKERSHOEK (1673-1743)  , Dutch jurist, was
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born at Middleburg in
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Zeeland . In the
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prosecution of his legal studies, and while holding the offices first of member and afterwards of
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president of the supreme
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court, he found the
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common
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law of his
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country so defective as to be nearly useless for
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practical purposes . This abuse he resolved to reform, and took as the basis of a new
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system the principles of the
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ancient
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Roman law . His
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works are very voluminous . The most important of them are De foro legatorum (1702); Observationes
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Juris Romani (1710), of which a continuation in four books appeared in 1733; the
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treatise De Dominio
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Maris (1721); and the Quaestiones Juris Publici (1737) .
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Complete
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editions of his works were published after his
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death; one in
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folio at
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Geneva in 1761, and another in two volumes folio at
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Leiden in 1766 .

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