(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..." DOM

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 Pufal, who left him his private papers at his death; he himself died in 1696.