puyssance

Updated: May 5, 2025

The Franks are particularly mentioned as not having the Roman Institution, and accordingly the old French lawyers, even when most busily engaged in filling the interstices of barbarous custom with rules of Roman law, were obliged to protect themselves against the intrusion of the Potestas by the express maxim, Puyssance de père en France n'a lieu.

Sir Henry Sumner Maine - Ancient Law: Its Connection to the History of Early Society