French Parliaments
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Parliament of Paris · parliament of Paris · principal chamber of the parliament of Paris
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The French sovereign judicial courts, notably the Parliament of Paris
and originally the Parliaments were as untiring as the Courts of the English Kings, and in the teeth of far fiercer protests from the French nobility, in extending the authority of royal law at the cost of local law.
There is a general agreement among historians of French law that this later tenderness of the French Parliaments to signorial rights and signorial jurisdictions is attributable to the interest which the French ‘nobility of the gown’ had acquired in signorial privileges.
The Rights of War and Peace
French judicial body that ruled on the status of goods retaken from the Algerines.
A decision has lately been made in the principal chamber of the parliament of Paris, declaring all effects belonging to the subjects of France, and taken by the Algerines, a people always engaged in predatory and maritime warfare with all other countries, if retaken, to belong to the captors.