DOMAT (John), a celebrated French lawyer born in 1625, who observing the confused state of the laws, digested them in 4 vols 4to, under the title of "The civil
Dome civil laws in their natural order: for which undertaking, Lewis XIV. settled on him a pension of 2000 livres. Domat was intimate with the famous Pafcal, who left him his private papers at his death: he himself died in 1696.