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French jurist (–)

Robert Joseph Pothier (9 January – 2 March ) was a French jurist.^[1]

Life

He was born and passed away at Orléans.

He studied law to qualify for the magistracy, and was appointed Judge in of the Presidial Court of Orléans, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. He held the post for fifty-two years.^[2]

Pothier paid particular attention to the correction and co-ordination of the text of the Pandects.

His Pandectae Justinianae in novum ordinem digestae (Paris and Chartres, –) is a classic in the study of Roman law.

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In he was made professor of law at the University of Orleans.^[2]

He wrote many learned monographs on French law, and much of his work was incorporated almost textually in the French Code Civil. His theories on the law of contract were influential in England^[3] as well as in the United States.

Pothier devised a law limiting recovery in the case of improper perfo