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JEAN MARIE PARDESSUS (1772-1853)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 800 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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:Louis Philippe, and was deprived of his See also:office . After the publication of the first See also:volume of his Collection des leis maritimes anterieures an xviiiie siecle (1828) he was elected a member of the See also:Academic des See also:Inscriptions et Belles Lettres . He continued his collection of maritime See also:laws (4 vols., 1828-1845), and published See also:Les Us et coutumes de la mer (2 vols., 1847) . He also brought out two volumes of Merovingian diplomas (Diplomata, chartae, epistolae, leges, 1843–1849); vols. iv.–vi. of the Table chronologique des diplames; and vol. xxi. of Ordonnances des roil de See also:France (1849), preceded by an Essai sur l'ancienne organisation judiciaire, which was reprinted in See also:part in 1851 . In 1843 Pardessus published a See also:critical edition of the Loi salique, followed by 14 See also:dissertations, which greatly advanced the knowledge of the subject . He died at Pimpeneau near Blois on the 27th of May 1853 . See notices in See also:Journal See also:general de l'instruction publique (See also:July 27, 1853), in the Bibliotheque de l'ecole des chartes (3rd See also:series, 1854, V . 453), and in the " Histoire de 1'academie des inscriptions et belles lettres " (vol. xx. of the Mimoires de l'academie, 1861) .

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