Charles Aubry (1803–1883) was a French jurist. He taught law at
Strasbourg from 1833 to 1871 and was a judge on the
Cour de Cassation
A court of cassation is a high-instance court that exists in some judicial systems. Courts of cassation do not re-examine the facts of a case, they only interpret the relevant law. In this they are appellate courts of the highest instance. In th ...
from 1872 to 1878.
He was made famous in French legal circles by his only publication, together with
Frédéric Charles Rau, the Cours de droit civil français (1839–46). This first systematic synthesis of French civil law abandoned the structure of the ''
Code civil''. It introduced, among others, German legal notions such as
rules of evidence
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as well as theories of
joint property and vindication to French law. Originally a translation of
Karl-Salomon Zachariä's ''Handbuch des französischen Civilrechts'', the work became increasingly independent from its German template, being republished as late as 1964–73 in an incomplete 7th edition.
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French jurists
1803 births
1883 deaths
Court of Cassation (France) judges
19th-century French judges
19th-century jurists
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