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(2011) Interpretation of law in the age of enlightenment, Dordrecht, Springer.
Legal interpretation in France under the reign of louis xvi
a review of the gazette des tribunaux
Jean-Louis Halpérin
pp. 21-43
This chapter examines judicial interpretation of the law during the final years of France's Ancien Regime: in particular, the 15 years of Louis XVI's reign that preceded the French Revolution. I shall explore this interpretation through the lens of a periodical law report from the period, called the Gazette des tribunaux. To this end, first it will be necessary to present this publication's political and legal context. Second, I shall analyse the evolution of methods of publishing judgments, before proposing hypotheses about the evolution of legal interpretation itself.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1506-6_2
Full citation:
Halpérin, J. (2011)., Legal interpretation in France under the reign of louis xvi: a review of the gazette des tribunaux, in Y. Morigiwa, M. Stolleis & J. Halpérin (eds.), Interpretation of law in the age of enlightenment, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 21-43.