VOET, JOHN, the grandson of Gisbert Voet, was born at Utrecht on the 3d of October 1647. His father, Paul Voet, who was born at Heusde on the 7th of June 1619, became successively professor of logic and metaphysics, of the Greek language, and of the civil law, in the university of Utrecht, and died in that city on the 1st of August 1677. He was likewise the author of various works. His son was appointed professor of law at Herborn, and afterwards at Utrecht, and was finally removed to Leyden, where he died on the 11th of September 1714. His principal publications were De Jure Militari liber singular, Ulraj. 1670, 8vo; De Familia Ereiscunda liber singularis, Ulraj. 1672, 8vo; Compendium Juris iuxta seriem Pandectarum, Lugd. Bat. 1693, 4to; Commentarius ad Pandectas, Lugd. Bat. 1698, Hagæ Com. 1704, 2 tom. fol. The last is an elaborate and able work.