Génestal, Retrait Lignager (1925)

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

Title: Le Retrait Lignager

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 is an extract from the proceedings the Semaine de Droit Normand held in Jersey in 1923 (published, Caen, 1925) and treats the longstanding right (also known as clameur de marché de bourse) of relations to repurchase realty alienated by other family members. Edition(s) (this copy in bold): 1925 Provenance of this copy: Adv. GSK Dawes

Further reading:

S. Poirey, "Le droit coutumier à l'épreuve du temps. L'application de la coutume de Normandie dans les îles anglo-normandes : le retrait lignager", Revue historique de droit français et étranger 75, (1997), 377-414