Henri De Page (1894–1969) was a

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. De Page obtained his doctorate of law at the

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in 1919 and was appointed a judge on the Brussels court of instance. After obtaining a teaching position at the University, he was appointed a professor in 1936. His principal work was the thirteen-volume ''Traité élémentaire de droit civil belge'' (1950), the leading textbook on Belgian civil law. De Page belonged to the ''École scientifique'', also called "la seconde école de l'éxégese" founded before World War I in France by Gény, Esmein, Planiol, Lyon-Caen, Duguit and Hauriou. Where the older ''École de l'exégese'' held that law was synonymous to legislation and that the practice of law was the mere application of statutes, the ''École scientifique'' was of the opinion that law was a complex entity with many sources, including socio-economic factors.

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Belgian jurists 1894 births 1969 deaths {{Belgium-law-bio-stub