François Bourjoin Le droit commun de la France, et la coutume de Paris, réduits en principes Drawn from the Laws, Ordinances, Decrees, Jurisconsults and authors, and put in the order of a complete and methodical commentary on this custom. Containing, in this order, the usages of the Châtelet on liquidations, accounts, partitions, substitutions, tithes, and all other matters. A Paris, Grangé et Cellot imprimeur - libraire, 1770, with royal approval and privilege. Two large volumes In-Folio tome I and II, full calf binding with ribbed spine decorated with gilt fillets, fleurons and title, marbled endpapers, red edges, enriched with a few engravings in text, on laid paper. (damaged headbands, tears, folds, foxing). New revised and corrected edition of this important work of jurisprudence first published in 1747. Its author was the lawyer François Bourjon (d. 1751), who attempted to create a body of common law based on the Custom of Paris. His work inspired the drafters of the French Civil Code.