Génestal, L'inaliénabilité dotale Normande (1925)

Author(s): Robert Génestal (1872-1931)

Title: L'Origine et les premiers développments de l'inaliénabilité dotale Normande

Remarks:

Robert Génestal (né Génestal du Chaumeil) taught at Caen University 1901-1906. He was a pupil of Adhémar Esmein (1848-1913), whose famous Cours élémentaire d'Histoire de Droit Français he edited in its later editions, and whom he succeeded in 1906 in the teaching of canon law at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. The work presently under notice first appeared in the Nouvelle Revue historique de droit français et étranger no. 4 and treats the Medieval development of the preservation after marriage of the Norman wife's dower, under the influence of the canon law which was itself indebted to Roman ideas. Génestal's maintenance of close interests in the law of his native province was evidenced in regular participation in Normal legal conferences and publications in the Bibliothèque d'histoire du Droit Normand. Edition(s): 1925 Provenance of this copy: St John Robilliard Collection

Further reading:

J. Musset, Le régime des biens entre époux en droit normand du xvi^e siècle á la Révolution française (Caen, 1997). Obituary by F-L. Ganshof, Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, x (1931), 453-454. B. Basdevant-Gaudemet, "Génestal du Chaumeil, Robert" in P. Arabeyre, J-L Halpérin, and J. Krynen (ed.), Dictionnaire historique des juristes français xii^e -- xx^e siècle (Paris, 2007).