Defontaines

The oldest writer on the law of France. JEsprit des Lois, liv.

28, c. 38.

Pierre Desfontaines published, about the year 1263, a work on the French law of custom, comparing it with the Roman law.

1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 70, § 85.

This work, which the author called his Conseil, contains in particular an account of the customs of the country of Yermandois.

1 Hobertson*s Charles V,, Appendix, Note xxx.

Esprit des Lois, uh. sup,