les lois qui règlent àfc, i. e. the civil code

1. 38. cent coîituDies différentes. Coutumes is taken hère in the sensé of custo?n law, that is to say law based upon custom or use, in opposition to written law. Hence droit coutitmier ; coittumier, s. ni. means a book containing the collection of coutumes peculiar to a certain country, district, or jurisdiction. The principal French coutumiers were, in chronological order: (i) le conseil à un ami (about 1250), composed by Pierre de Fontaine; (2) le livre de justice et de plet (1260) by a professor, or perhaps a student of the Orléans law school ; (3) les établissements de Saint Louis (1269?); (4) la coutume de Beauvoisis (about 1280) by Philippe de Beaumanoir; (5) les coiitui7iiers normands (1207 — 1296); (6) les anciens usages d Anjou (1268); (7) rajiciencoutumier de CZ/aw/^i;^/;^ (beginning of the fourteenth century); (8) V ancien coutumier d^ Artois (same date); (9) la très-ancienne coutîime de Bretagne (after 1330); (10) le style du Parlernent (about 1330), by Guillaume du Breuil; (11) le grand coutumier de Charles VI (about the end of the fourteenth century); (12) la somme rtirale ; (13) le grand coutumier d' A^ivergne.

Des droits de terres^ rights and privilèges connected with landtenure.

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