DOMAT, or DAUMAT, JEAN, a celebrated French jurisconsult, born at Clermont in Auvergne, in 1625. He is principally known from his elaborate legal digest, in four volumes 4to, under the title of Lois Civiles dans leur Origine. VOL. VIII.
dre Naturel; an undertaking for which Louis XIV. settled on him a pension of two thousand livres. Domat was intimate with Pascal, and at the death of that celebrated philosopher was entrusted with his private papers. Besides the Lois Civiles, Domat made in Latin a selection of the most common laws in the collections of Justinian. This work, however, did not appear until after his death, when it was published separately under the title of Legum Delectus, and was subsequently appended to the Lois Civiles. It has been translated into English. Domat died in 1696.