Pierre Paul Nicolas Henrion de Pansey
| Pierre Paul Nicolas Henrion de Pansey | |
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| Born |
28 March 1742 Tréveray, Meuse, France |
| Died | 23 April 1829 (aged 87) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Jurist, politician |
| Known for | Minister of Justice |
Pierre Paul Nicolas Henrion de Pansey (28 March 1742 – 23 April 1829) was a French jurist and politician. He was briefly Minister of Justice in the French provisional government of 1814 formed after the defeat of Napoleon. He was one of the presidents of the Court of Cassation, a final court of appeal in France. He wrote several major works on jurisprudence.
Pierre Paul Nicolas Henrion de Pansey was born on 28 March 1742 in Tréveray, Meuse, near to Ligny in Lorraine. He came from a respectable family. He studied law at Pont-à-Mousson, then moved to Paris in 1762. He was received as an advocate on 10 March 1763, and admitted to the bar in 1767. He continued his studies, becoming expert on feudal laws and jurisprudence. His Traité des fiefs, published in 1773, made his reputation as an expert on jurisprudence.
To avoid the excesses of the French Revolution (1789–1799) Henrion returned to Pansey, where his family held property. He then moved to Joinville, a small neighboring town in the department of Haute-Marne. In 1796 the French Directory named Henrion president of the administration of Haute-Marne, based in Chaumont. Later he was named professor of legislation in the central school of Chaumont.
Under the Consulate, the Senate named Henrion to the Court of Cassation in 1800. In the year XIII (1805) he published De la Compétence des Juges de Paix, discussing the new institution of "Justice of Peace" created by the Constituent Assembly in imitation of the English equivalent. With this work he tried to clarify the role of the justices based on the spirit of the rather obscure applicable laws. In 1809 Henrion was appointed president of the chambre des requêtes of the Court of Cassation. In 1810 he issued De l'Autorité Judiciaire, a broad work on judicial authority that covered history, functions, issues, relationship to other powers and so on.
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