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DUMOULIN, See also:CHARLES [MOLINAEUS] (1500-1566) , See also:French jurist, was See also:born in See also:Paris in 1500. He began practice as an See also:advocate before the See also:parlement of Paris. Dumoulin turned Calvinist, and when the persecution of the Protestants began he went to See also:Germany, where for a See also:long See also:time he taught See also:law at See also:Strassburg, See also:Besancon and elsewhere. He returned to See also:France in 1557. Dumoulin had, in 1552, written Commentaire sur l'edit du roi See also:Henri II sur See also:les petites See also:dates, which was condemned by the See also:Sorbonne, but his Conseil sur le fait du concile de Trente created a still greater stir, and aroused against him both the Catholics and the Calvinists. He was imprisoned by See also:order of the parlement until 1564. It was as a jurist that Dumoulin gained his See also:great reputation, being regarded by his contemporaries as the " See also:prince of jurisconsults." His remarkable erudition and breadth of view had a considerable effect on the subsequent development of French law. He was a See also:bitter enemy of See also:feudalism, which he attacked in his De feudis (Paris, 1539). Other import-See also:ant See also:works were his commentaries on the customs of Paris (Paris, 1539, 1554; See also:Frankfort, 1575; See also:Lausanne, 1576), valuable as the only commentary on those in force in 1510, and the Extricatio labyrinthi dividui et individui, a See also:treatise on the law of See also:surety. A collected edition of Dumoulin's works was published in Paris in 1681 (5 vols.).

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