About François Pollet
Lived 1516 – 1547 (aged 30–31). François Pollet was a French jurist-consultant and jurist.
François Pollet (died around 1547) was a lawyer from Douai, then in the County of Flanders (Habsburg Netherlands).
Life Pollet studied law at Leuven University and for a number of years became a lecturer in law at the University of Paris. He was then called to the bar, and returned to his native Douai, where he married and maintained a legal practice. He died young, leaving the incomplete manuscript of a study of Roman legal institutions. His work was later edited and put into print by his son-in-law, Philippe Broïde, a member of the city council of Douai.
Publications Historia Fori Romani (Douai, Jan Bogard, 1576) Available on Google Books
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French jurist-consultant (1516-1547)
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