Quick Facts
- Cujas also spelled:
- Cujaus
- Latin:
- Jacobus Cujacius, or Cuiacius
- Born:
- 1522, Toulouse, France
- Died:
- Oct. 4, 1590, Bourges (aged 68)
- Notable Works:
- “Paratitla”
- Subjects Of Study:
- Code of Justinian
- Roman law
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Jacques Cujas
French jurist and scholar
Also known as: Jacobus Cuiacius, Jacobus Cujacius, Jacques Cujaus(Show More)
Jacques Cujas (born 1522, Toulouse, France—died Oct. 4, 1590, Bourges) was a French jurist and classical scholar whose work on Roman law was part of the humanist revival of classical culture.
A teacher at the universities of Valence and Bourges, Cujas attracted outstanding students from all over Europe, among them the Dutch classical scholar Joseph Justus Scaliger. In jurisprudence Cujas specialized in Justinian; his Paratitla, or summaries of Justinian’s Digest and Codex, expresses in short, clear axioms the elementary principles of Roman law. He also edited the Codex Theodosianus. A complete edition of Cujas’s works, in 10 volumes (1658), was prepared by Charles Annibal Fabrot.
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