JEAN

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• MARIE

MARIE

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• JEAN MARIE PARDESSUS (1772-1853)

PARDESSUS (1772-1853)  , French lawyer, was born at Blois on the 11th of August 1772 . He was educated by the Oratorians, and then studied law, at first under his father, a lawyer at the Presidial, who was a pupil of Robert J . 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 age of twenty-seven, but refused to remarry and so give his children a step-mother . He wrote a Traite des servitudes (18o6), which went through eight editions, then a Traite du central et des lettres de change (1809), which pointed him out as fitted for the chair of commercial law recently formed at the faculty of law at Paris . The emperor, however, had insisted that the position should be open to competition . Pardessus entered (181o) and was successful ever two other candidates, Andre M . J . J . Dupin and Persil, who afterwards became brilliant lawyers . His lectures were published under the title Cosies de droit commercial (4 vols., 18'3-1817) .

In 1815 Pardessus was elected

deputy for the department of Loir-et-Cher, and from 1820 to 183o was constantly re-elected; then, however, he refused to take the oath of allegiance to Louis Philippe, and was deprived of his office . After the publication of the first volume of his Collection des leis maritimes anterieures an xviiiie siecle (1828) he was elected a member of the Academic des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres . He continued his collection of maritime laws (4 vols., 1828-1845), and published 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 France (1849), preceded by an Essai sur l'ancienne organisation judiciaire, which was reprinted in part in 1851 . In 1843 Pardessus published a critical edition of the Loi salique, followed by 14 dissertations, which greatly advanced the knowledge of the subject . He died at Pimpeneau near Blois on the 27th of May 1853 . See notices in Journal general de l'instruction publique (July 27, 1853), in the Bibliotheque de l'ecole des chartes (3rd 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) .