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 Laws in their natural order: for which undertaking, Louis XIV. settled on him a pension of 2000 livres. Domar was intimate with the famous Palcal, who left him his private papers at his death: he himself died in 1696.