Johannes Voet

Johannes Voet ( born October 3, 1647 Utrecht, † September 9, 1713 ibid ) was one of the greatest jurists of the usus modernus pandectarum in the Netherlands and the Dutch elegant school is often attributed.

Life

His father was a law professor Paul Voet, one of the early Dutch jurists who commented on the conflict of laws. His mother's name was Elisabeth van Winsen.

After attending the Latin school Johannes Voet studied at Utrecht University, where he is said to have also obtained his doctorate of rights. Since neither the matriculation nor the Utrecht Promotion catalog record his name, he may have completed studies in France. His first chair he stepped on to the High School Herborn in 1670. He was appointed on May 11, 1674 as a professor of law at the University of Utrecht, then, which office he assumed on 25 August 1674 of the speech De advocatis. Here he took part in 1679/80 as rector of the Alma Mater at the organizational tasks. On January 16, 1680 he received an appointment as professor of Roman law by the Curators of the University of Leiden.

He followed this reputation on 6 February 1680. Having received a salary of 2,000 guilders Zulagee in December 1687 he took over on January 19, 1688 the chair of practical law. So he read not just Roman law, but - as the first lawyer in the Netherlands - also the law in force. His lectures on the applicable law, he held on the basis of a book by Hugo Grotius, entitled " Inleidinge dead de Hollandse right - geleerdheid ". Even in suffering, he participated in 1681/82 1686 /87 1709/10 as rector of the Alma Mater at the organizational tasks of the university. Known are two speeches he had delivered at the laying of the rectors. 1687 speech de docentium et discentium officio and 1710, the speech qua monstratur veritas asserti: raros esse, qui philosophantur.

From his marriage with Magdalena de Sadelare comes a daughter, who married the Utrecht Secretary Gisbert Voet.

Teaching

Voet wanted to merge Roman and modern right to combine theory and practice. Its aim was to declare the law and do not operate, as the humanist jurisprudence, philological textual criticism. Voet not problematized the genesis of the Corpus iuris, but took it as basically unproblematic legal text back.

For the explanation of the law and to be a good lawyer to be handed the knowledge of positive law by Voets view, while his faculty colleague Gerhard Noodt from humanistic understanding of the texts here, a historical, philological training, in addition to the jurisitischen, considered necessary and the texts of the Corpus Iuris underwent a philological textual criticism and examined for possible interpolations.

Importance Voet for Private International Law, he contributed to the dissemination of the developed by his father Statutes classification and the comity principle, ie cooperation and mutual consideration of the various states, at.

Works

• De Jure militarized liber singing. In quo plurimae ad militiae militumque jurassic pertinentes controversiae juxta leges gentium mores, et rerum exempla sunt judicatarum definitae. Utrecht 1670 ( Online), The Hague 1705 ( Online), Brussels, 1728 ( Online), Jena 1758 translated into Dutch: Den Haag 1726
• De erciscunda familia liber singularis. Utrecht in 1673, 1700 ( Online), 1717 ( Online)
• Oratio funebris in obitum Andreae Essenii. Utrecht 1677
• Responsio ad Libellum Cephae Pistophili adversus Gisberti Voetii Disputationem de Justificatione. The Hague 1677
• Compendium juris juxta Seriem pandectarum. Felix Lopez, Leiden 1682 ( digitized: Issue 1720 Issue 1731 Issue 1736 Issue 1736).

• Commentarius ad Pandectas. In quo praeter juris Romani principia ac controversias illustriores, jus hodiernum etiam, et praecipue fori quaestiones excutiuntur 2 vols John Verbessel, Leiden 1698/1704 ( digitized ), The Hague 1704, 1707 ( Online), 1716, 1723, 1726, 1731 - 34, Geneva, 1769, Venice, 1775 ( online), Geneva, 1778 ( online), Hall 1680 ( online) increased with a Supplementum of John van der Linden (Utrecht 1793),

• Oratio, qua monstratur veritas asserti a d pio Rarosesse, qui philosophantur. Leiden 1710 ( Online)
• Elementa juris secundum ordinem Institutionum Justinian in usum domesticae exercitationis digesta. Leiden 1712 ( Online)
• Compendium juris juxta Seriem pandectarum, adjectis differentiis Juris Civilis et Canonici. Leiden in 1715 and 1720 ( Online), 2 vols
• De erciscunda familia liber singing. Additionibus nonnullis ut et supremi Brabantiae senatus arrestis hac primum Editione illustratus. Brussels 1717