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See also:LAURENT, See also:FRANCOIS (1810–1887) , Belgian historian and jurisconsult, was See also:born at See also:Luxemburg on the 8th of See also:July 18ro. He held a high See also:appointment in the See also:ministry of See also:justice for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time before he became See also:professor of See also:civil See also:law in the university of See also:Ghent in 1836. His advocacy of liberal and See also:anti-clerical principles both from his See also:chair and in the See also:press made him hitter enemies, but he retained his position until his See also:death on the 11th of See also:February 1887. He treated the relations of See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church and See also:state in L'Eglise et l'etat (See also:Brussels, 3 vols., 1858–1862; new and revised edition, 1865), and the same subject occupied a large proportion of the eighteen volumes of his See also:chief See also:historical See also:work, Etudes sur l'histoire de l'humanite (Ghent and Brussels, 1855–187o), which aroused considerable See also:interest beyond the boundaries of See also:Belgium. His fame as a lawyer rests on his authoritative exposition of the See also:Code See also:Napoleon in his Principes de See also:droit civil (Brussels, 33 vols., 1869–1878), and his Droit civil See also:international (Brussels, 8 vols., 188o–1881). He was charged in 1879 by the See also:minister of justice with the preparation of a See also:report on the proposed revision of the civil code. Besides his anti-clerical See also:pamphlets his See also:minor writings include much discussion of social questions, of the organization of savings See also:banks, asylums, &c., and he founded the Societe Callier for the encouragement of See also:thrift among the working classes. With Gustave Callier, whose funeral in 1863 was made the occasion of a display of clerical intolerance, Laurent had much in See also:common, and the efforts of the society were directed to the continuation of Callier's philanthropic schemes.
For a See also:complete See also:list of his See also:works, see G. See also:Koninck, Bibliographic nationale (Brussels, vol. ii., 1892).
End of Article: LAURENT, FRANCOIS (1810–1887)
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