Le Rouillé, Grand Coustumier (1539)

Author(s): Guillaume le Rouillé (1493 or '94 - c. 1550)

Title: Le Grand Coustumier du pays et duche de Normendie tres utile et proffitable a tous practiciens

Remarks:

Usually surnamed d'Alençon, Guillaume le Rouillé was an advocate of that town, and a lieutenant-général in the province of Maine. This publication is an edition of the Summa de Legibus (1270x1302) and its French translation the Grand Coutumier de Normandie, with le Rouillé's comments; the Exposito, commonly called the Glose (early to mid-fifteenth century); the Nouveau Style (mid-fifteenth century), and the 'stille et ordre de proceder de la court de parlement de Normendie' of 1515, and more, added. The work's second edition includes new paragraphs headed 'secunda additio' which are le Rouillé's own comments. Le Rouillé also published a commentary on the coutume of Maine and other works. Edition(s) (this copy in bold): 1534, 1539 Provenance of this copy: St John Robilliard Collection

Further reading:

R. Besnier, La Coutume de Normandie: histoire externe (Paris, 1935) pp. 147-148. R. Leonhard, "Les additions au Coutumier de Normandie de Guillaume le Rouillé d'Alençon en tant qu'elles touchent au droit Romain" (extrait du Congrès du Millenaire normand, Rouen, 1911). V. Lemonnier-Lesage, "Le Rouillé Guillaume" in P. Arabeyre, J-L Halpérin, and J. Krynen (ed.), Dictionnaire historique des juristes français xii^e -- xx^e siècle (Paris, 2007).