or Daumat, John, a celebrated French juristconsult, born in 1625. Having observed the confused state of the laws, he digested them in four volumes 4to, under the title of *Lois Civiles dans leur Ordre Naturel*; an undertaking for which Louis XIV. settled on him a pension of two thousand livres. Domat was intimate with the famous Pascal, who left him his private papers at his death. He himself died in 1696. Besides the *Lois Civiles*, Domat made in Latin a selection of the most common laws in the collections of Justinian; but this work did not appear until after his death, when it was published separately, under the title of *Legum Defectus*. Subsequently, however, it was united with the *Lois Civiles*. Domat may be regarded as the restorer of reason in jurisprudence.