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Place of Birth: Decize, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
About Guy Coquille
- Guy Coquille (1523–1603), also called Conchyleus, was a French jurist. He studied the humanities in the Collège de Navarre, Paris, from 1532 to 1539, and then law in Padua and Orléans.
- Coquille took up the practice of law in Paris in 1550, and moved to Nevers in 1559, where he worked as an advocate for the Parlement.
- He represented the Third Estate of his province in the States-General of 1560, 1576 and 1588, and served as procureur fiscal of the Duke of Nevers from 1571 on. Coquille's writings were all published posthumously.
- They include the Institutions au droit des Francois, ou Nouvelle Conférence des Coutumes de France (1607) and the Questions et responses sur les Coutumes de France (1611).
- These works attempted to cover the laws of France comprehensively without respect to their origin in the common law or in Roman law, a novel approach that first emerged in the legal writing of 16th century France, and later in that of other European countries as well.
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