Génestal, Tenure en Bourgage (1900)

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

Title: Tenure en Bourgage: étude sur la propriété foncière dans les villes Normandes

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, on the relative freedom from seigneurial interests of some urban tenures, was his first published book. It was followed by numerous publications in ecclesiastical (e.g., relating to privilege, and the economic functions of monasteries) and other, Norman, legal subjects, including those of the Channel Islands, presented elsewhere on this website. 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): 1900 Provenance of this copy: St John Robilliard Collection

Further reading:

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).