The Custom of Paris in the New World (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It will be noted that, by the terms of the decree of 1664, the courts of the colony were to be guided not only by the provisions of the Custom of Paris but by the laws and ordinances of the realm. The ordinances of the French crown prior to this date had been numerous; but very few of them had made any important changes in the law of private relations. The age of Louis XIV, however, proved to be prolific in legislation of this sort, and a succession of ordinances commencing in 1667 and commonly known as the >grandes ordon nances revised and codified several important branches of the law This legislation, in the main, supplemented the Custom of Paris, and covered fields of law into which the terms of the Custom had not ventured; but to some extent the ordinances varied and altered in effect the provisions of this latter code It therefore becomes im portant to know whether these grandes ordonnances: applied to France alone, or whether their provisions extended to the colonies as well.

In France it was necessary, before an ordinance of this sort should become valid, that it should be registered by the Parliament of Paris.

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