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Coutume de Paris † 

• Hist. originally the common law of northern France, a code of laws instituted in New France in 1663 and contributing much to the civil code in force in modern Quebec.

  See also: Custom of Paris  

  • 1799  What can the law of Canada mean? It must be the coutume de Paris, modified as it has been by the ordinances of the province.
  • 1840  (1860)  In regard to property and civil jurisdiction, the coutume de Paris, with the ordinances of the French kings, though forming a complicated, perplexed, and inconvenient system, had been so interwoven with the habits of the settles that they could not be persuaded to prefer one decidedly better.
  • 1963  By royal decree of 1663 the Coutume de Paris, the common law of northern France, was established as the law of New France.