PARDESSUS, JEAN MARIE (1772-1853)

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PARDESSUS, JEAN MARIE (1772-1853) , French lawyer, was born at Blois on the 11th of August 1772. He was educated by the Oratorians, and then studied law, at first under his father, a lawyer at the Presidial, who was a pupil of Robert J.

Pothier

POTHIER, ROBERT JOSEPH (1699-1772)

. In 1796, after the Terror, he married, but his wife died at the end of three years. He was thus a widower at the age of twenty-seven, but refused to remarry and so give his children a step-mother. He wrote a Traite des servitudes (18o6), which went through eight editions, then a Traite du central et des lettres de

change

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. 冠 urmu', to bend)

(1809), which pointed him out as fitted for the chair of commercial law recently formed at the faculty of law at Paris. The emperor, however, had insisted that the position should be open to competition.

Pardessus

PARDESSUS, JEAN MARIE (1772-1853)

entered (181o) and was successful ever two other candidates, Andre M. J. J. Dupin and Persil, who afterwards became brilliant lawyers. His lectures were published under the title Cosies de

droit

DROIT (Fr. for " right," from Lat. directus, straight)

commercial (4 vols., 18'3-1817). In 1815

Pardessus

PARDESSUS, JEAN MARIE (1772-1853)

was elected

deputy

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

for the department of Loir-et-Cher, and from 1820 to 183o was constantly re-elected; then, however, he refused to take the oath of allegiance to Louis Philippe, and was deprived of his office. After the publication of the first volume of his Collection des leis maritimes anterieures an xviiiie siecle (1828) he was elected a member of the Academic des

Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

et Belles Lettres. He continued his collection of maritime

laws

LAWS

(4 vols., 1828-1845), and published Les Us et coutumes de la mer (2 vols., 1847). He also brought out two volumes of Merovingian diplomas (Diplomata, chartae, epistolae, leges, 18431849); vols. iv.vi. of the Table chronologique des diplames; and
vol. xxi. of Ordonnances des roil de France (1849), preceded by an Essai sur l'ancienne organisation judiciaire, which was reprinted in part in 1851. In 1843 Pardessus published a

critical

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

edition of the Loi salique, followed by 14 dissertations, which greatly advanced the knowledge of the subject. He died at Pimpeneau near Blois on the 27th of May 1853.
See notices in Journal general de l'instruction publique (July 27, 1853), in the Bibliotheque de l'ecole des chartes (3rd

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

, 1854, V. 453), and in the " Histoire de 1'academie des

inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

et belles lettres " (vol. xx. of the Mimoires de l'academie, 1861).

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