Gerhard Noodt (4 September 1647 – 15 August 1725) was a Dutch jurist, born in

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. Educated at

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, and

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, he became a professor of law at the

and the

. As a writer on

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he acquired a wide reputation. His

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style was modelled after the best writers, and his numerous works soon rose to the rank of standard authorities. Two of his political treatises were translated into

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Jean Barbeyrac Jean Barbeyrac (; 15 March 1674 – 3 March 1744) was a French jurist. Life Born at Béziers in Lower Languedoc, he was the nephew of Charles Barbeyrac, a distinguished physician of Montpellier. He moved with his family into Switzerland afte ...

, and appeared at

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in 1707 and 1714, under the respective titles of ''Pouvoir des souverains'' and ''Liberté de conscience''. The first edition of his collected works was published at Leiden in 1724 and the last in 1767. That of 1735 and those subsequent contain a life of the author by Barbeyrac.

Works

* ''De civili prudentia'', 1679 * ''De religione ab imperio jure gentium libera'', 1706 ** * an unfinished commentary on the ''

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'', 1716 File:Noodt - De foenore et usuris, 1698 - 292.tif, ''De foenore et usuris'', 1698 File:Noodt, Gerard – De religione ab imperio jure gentium libera, 1708 – BEIC 8534748.jpg, ''De religione ab imperio jure gentium libera'', 1708

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Noodt, Gerhard 17th-century Dutch lawyers 1647 births 1725 deaths People from Nijmegen 18th-century Dutch lawyers