Grand Coutumier

Two collections of laws bore this title. One, also called the "Coutumier of France," is a collection of the customs, usages, and forms of practice which had been used from time immemorial in France; the other, called the "Coutumier de Normandie" (which, indeed, with some alterations, made a part of the former), was composed about the fourteenth of Henry

Two collections of laws bore this title. One, also called the Coutumier of France, Is a collection of the customs, usages, and forms of practice which had been used from time Immemorial In France; the other, calleu the Coutumier de Normandie (which indeed, with some alterations, made a part of the former), was composed, about 14 Henry III, (1229), and is a collection of the Norman laws, not as they stood at the conquest of England, but some time afterwards, and contains many provisions probably borrowed from the old English or.Saxon laws. Hale, Hist. Com. Law c. 6. The work was reprinted in 1881 with notes by William L. De Gruchy. The Channel Islands are still for the most part governed by the ducal customs of Normandy; 1 Steph. Com. 61.

A collection of customs, laws, and forms of procedure in use in carly times in France. See Couru-

or Coutumier de France.

In early European law. A collection of the customs, usages and forms of practice which had been in use from time immemorial in the kingdom of France, first projected by Charles VII. in 1463, but not completed until 1609. Crabb's Hist. Eng. Law, 69. It consisted of the coutumiers, (or collections of customs,) of the various provinces and places in France. The best edition of this is by Richebourg in four volumes folio. It contains near one hundred collections of the customs of provinces, and two hundred collections of the customs of cities, towns, and villages. Butler's Co. Litt. Note 77, Lib. 3.