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ORTOLAN, JOSEPH LOUIS ELZEAR (1802-1873)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 341 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ORTOLAN, See also:JOSEPH See also:LOUIS ELZEAR (1802-1873) , See also:French jurist, was See also:born at See also:Toulon, on the 21st of See also:August 1802. He . studied See also:law at See also:Aix and See also:Paris, and See also:early made his name by two volumes, Explication historique See also:des institutes de Justinien (1827), and Histoire de la legislation romaine (1828), the first of which has been frequently republished. He was made assistant librarian to the See also:court of cassation, and was promoted after the Revolution of 183o to be secretary-See also:general. He was also commissioned to give a course of lectures at the See also:Sorbonne on constitutional law, and in 1836 was appointed to the See also:chair of See also:comparative criminal law at the university of Paris. He published many See also:works on constitutional and comparative law, of which the following may be mentioned: Histoire du See also:droit constitutionnel en See also:Europe See also:pendant le moyen dge (1831) ; Introduction historique au See also:tours de legislation penale comparee (1841); he was the author of a See also:volume of See also:poetry See also:Les enfantines (1845). He died in Paris, on the 27th of See also:March 1873.

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