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Of the older generation of masters now pursuing their 

 labors these may be mentioned in passing: FOURNIER 

 (Paris) , whose specialty is the history of mediaeval Roman 

 and ecclesiastical law; FLACH (Paris), whose "Origines 

 de 1'ancienne France " marks his special interest in the 

 history of public law; his chair is that of the Compara- 

 tive History of Legal Systems; JOBBE-DUVAL (Paris), 

 one of whose specialties is mediaeval procedure. 



Among those masters who may be spoken of as juniors, 

 but in age only, not in achievement, are these: HUVELIN 

 (Lyon), whose History of Commercial Law (now in 

 preparation) will take the place of Goldschmidt's in the 

 coming generation; LAMBERT (Lyon), whose interests 

 extend into Comparative Legal History; CAILLEMER 

 (Grenoble), whose "History of Executors" has thrown 

 much light on English law; DECLAREUIL (Toulouse), 

 whose special field has been the Frankish law; GENESTAL 

 (Paris), whose principal work is in the history of Canon 

 laws; CHENON, MEYNIAL, and LEFEBVRE (Paris), who 

 represent general French legal history; the "Histoire 

 du droit matrimonial franc, ais" (4 vols., 1908-14), by 

 the last-named scholar, is still unfinished; COLLINET 

 (Lille), who besides holding the chair of French Legal 

 History is an authority in Roman Law. 



The Societe d'Histoire du Droit et des Institutions 

 cultivates specially this field. In the chapter on History 

 in this book will be found a more particular account of 

 the resources available for research in History generally. 



Comparative Legal History. This subject (as distin- 

 guished from Comparative Contemporary Legislation) 

 naturally is linked with that of Roman and Western 

 European legal history, and several of the incumbents 

 of chairs above mentioned deal with aspects of it in their 

 treatises and courses. But, in another relation, it merges 



