or DAUMAT, JEAN, a celebrated French jurist-consult, 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 Or- 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 intrusted 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.