Jacques Cujas
French legal scholar (1522–1590) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the French wine grape, see Cujas (grape).
Jacques Cujas (or Cujacius) (Toulouse, 1522 – Bourges, 4 October 1590) was a French legal expert. He was prominent among the legal humanists or mos gallicus school, which sought to abandon the work of the medieval Commentators and concentrate on ascertaining the correct text and social context of the original works of Roman law.