A propos d’un ‘recueil d’arrêts’ inédit : la jurisprudence du parlement de Flandre de Georges de Ghewiet

Dauchy, Serge

Demars-Sion, Véronique

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Parlement de Flandre

Limelette, Renaud

Article de revue

A propos d’un ‘recueil d’arrêts’ inédit : la jurisprudence du parlement de Flandre de Georges de Ghewiet

2009

157-189

Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis / Revue d'Histoire du Droit / The Legal History Review

77

http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/004075809x403424

booksandjournals.brillonline.com

10.1163/004075809X403424

1571-8190

Georges de Ghewiet's reports on cases decided by the Sovereign Court (Parlement) of Flanders in the Kingdom of France was primarily based on the reports written by Jacques Pollet, a judge in the same court, which were published in 1716. In his own work, de Ghewiet, an advocate, added new decisions, both of the Parlement of Flanders and of other courts in France and in the Low Countries, and included commentaries referring extensively to European legal literature. Like many other reports of the French Parlement of Flanders (all, however, written by judges), de Ghewiet's reports were never printed, although the author had intended to have the work published. A modern critical edition has been prepared by the authors of the present article. In this contribution, they discuss de Ghewiet's Jurisprudence du parlement de Flandre in comparison with other reports of the French Parlements, the author's purpose and the structure of the work, and also his use of a wide range of legal authorities.

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