DOMAT, or DAUMAT,

See also:

• JEAN

JEAN (1625-1696)  , French jurisconsult, was born at Clermont in Auvergne, on the 3oth of November 1625 . He was closely in sympathy with the Port-Royalists, was intimate with Pascal, and at the death of that celebrated philosopher was entrusted with his private papers . He is principally known from his elaborate legal digest, in three volumes 4to, under the title of Lois civiles clans leur ordre naturel (1689),an undertaking for which Louis XIV. settled on him a pension of 2000 livres . A fourth volume, Le Droit public, was published in 1697, a year after his death . This is one of the most important works on the science of law that France has produced . Domat endeay.;;:red to found all law upon ethical or religious principles, his motto being L'homme est fait par Dieu et pour Dieu . Besides the Lois Civiles, Domat made in Latin a selection of the most common laws in the collections of Justinian, under the title of Legum delectus (Paris, 1700; Amsterdam, 1703); it was subsequently appended to the Lois civiles . His works have been translated into English . Domat died in Paris on the 14th of March 1696 . In the Journal des savants for 1843 are several papers on Domat by Victor Cousin, giving much information not otherwise accessible .