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See also:JEAN See also:MARIE See also:PARDESSUS (1772-1853) , See also:French lawyer, was See also:born at See also:Blois on the 11th of See also:August 1772 . He was educated by the Oratorians, and then studied See also:law, at first under his See also:father, a lawyer at the Presidial, who was a See also:pupil of See also:Robert J . See also:Pothier . In 1796, after the Terror, he married, but his wife died at the end of three years . He was thus a widower at the See also:age of twenty-seven, but refused to remarry and so give his See also:children a step-See also:mother . He wrote a Traite See also:des servitudes (18o6), which went through eight See also:editions, then a Traite du central et des lettres de See also:change (1809), which pointed him out as fitted for the See also:chair of commercial law recently formed at the See also:faculty of law at See also:Paris . The See also:emperor, however, had insisted that the position should be open to competition . See also:Pardessus entered (181o) and was successful ever two other candidates, See also:Andre M . J . J . See also:Dupin and Persil, who afterwards became brilliant lawyers . His lectures were published under the See also:title Cosies de See also:droit commercial (4 vols., 18'3-1817) .
In 1815 Pardessus was elected See also:deputy for the See also:department of Loir-et-See also:Cher, and from 1820 to 183o was constantly re-elected; then, however, he refused to take the See also:oath of See also:allegiance to See also: |
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