Traité du douaire, par l'auteur du Traité des obligations

First edition of a legal treatise by the influential Orléans jurist R.-J. Pothier (1699-1772). Much of his work of was incorporated almost textually in the French Code Civil, and his theories on the law of contract were influential in England as well as in the United States.

Joined is the appendix volume to "Traité du douaire": "Traité du droit d'habitation" (same address & printer, 1771).