THE FRENCH LAWS AFTER NAPOLEON

Sirey, Jean-Baptiste-Aimé-Auguste-Charles - Villeneuve, Jean Le Moine (de). Jurisprudence du XIXme siècle, ou table tricennale du recueil général des lois et des arrets, en matière civile, criminelle, commerciale et de droit public [...] Paris, A l'Administration du Recueil Général des Lois et des arrets, et du Bulletin Officiel de la Cour de Cassation, 1834.

Folio (297x230 mm), half calf binding (slightly worn) on hand colored paper, gilt titles on two red labels and gilt tooled decorations at spine sections, edges colored in yellow, but originally sprayed in red, pp. vij, [1], 1111, [1, blank], [54]. Text in French on three columns.

Complete and detailed collection of the French jurisprudence of the post-Napoleonic era, containing rules in the area of Civil, Criminal, Commercial and Public Law. The book is organized in the form of a dictionary, with a succession of lemmas in alphabetical order, addressing the reader to the most important juridical subjects. The text is rich of References to ancient and modern law authors and ancient sources.

Jean-Baptiste-Aimé-Auguste-Charles Sirey (1762-1845) was a French priest that, at the beginning of the revolution, dismissed the cassock and became a lawyer at first at the Court of Cassation then at the Council of State. He is famous for his collection of jurisprudence.

References: IT\ICCU\RMG\0126838 (2 copies). OCLC, 38469328.

Some foxing; overall, a good copy.