Richard Zouch

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Richard Zouch also Richard Zouche (around 1590 - March 1, 1661 ) was an English judge and politician in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1624.

Life

Zouch was born in Ansty , Wiltshire , about 1590 to Francis Zouche, Lord of the House of Ansty. The mother is given as Philippa, the sixth daughter of George Ludlow from Hill Deverel in Wiltshire. He was trained at Winchester College in Winchester and then moved to the New College of the University of Oxford , where he taught from July 10, 1607, from 1609 as a fellow . June 30, 1614, he achieved his Bachelor of Law (BCL) and April 8, 1619 the Doctor of Law (DCL), only after he had been admitted to the Doctors' Commons in 1618 . In 1620 he was appointed Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford as the successor to John Budden . In addition to the professorship, he also ran a large law firm in London . In 1622 he married Sarah, the daughter of John Hart von Brill in Oxfordshire , a lawyer with the Doctors' Commons. He gave up his fellowship and enlisted himself in 1623 as a Fellow Commoner at Wadham College . From 1621 to 1624 he was elected to Parliament for the constituency of Hythe , Kent, with the help of his cousin Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouch . In 1625 he became director of St Alban's Hall, part of Merton College, and gave up his fellowship for it. He held this position until 1641.

He was a leader in the codification of the university statutes by William Laud (1629 to 1633). For many years he worked as an assessor to the court of the vice-chancellor and in 1632 was himself appointed chancellor of the Diocese of Oxford. In 1641 he was appointed judge at the Admiralty Court , succeeding the late Henry Marten .

During the English Civil War he was a royalist , if not clearly stated. In the Commonwealth of England , which represented the government after the Civil War, he kept his positions at the university even after the puritan parliamentary clean-up and was appointed to the Court of Oyer and Terminer by Oliver Cromwell, consisting of three judges, three civilians and three lay people Assigned trial of the brother of the Portuguese envoy Don Pantaleone Sá, who was accused of murder in a brawl, convicted on July 4, 1654 and subsequently executed. Zouche later defended the verdict again, arguing that the diplomatic immunity of an ambassador does not extend to the family. However, Zouche lost his judge's position at Admiralty Court. This was given instead to John Exton . Both parties to the civil war viewed Zouch with suspicion. He taught at Oxford for the remainder of the Commonwealth.

After the Stuart Restoration , he became a member of the commission that reinstated the Oxford professors and fellows who had been deposed under the Protectorate of Cromwell. On February 4, 1661, he was reassigned his position as a judge at the Admiralty Court, but he died on March 1, 1661 in his offices at the Doctors' Commons in London. Zouch was buried in Fulham .

bibliography

law

  • Elementa jurisprudentiae. 1629.
  • Descriptio juris et judicii feudalis, secundum consuetudines Mediolani et Normanniae, pro introductione ad juris prudentiam Anglicanam. 1634.
  • Descriptio juris et judicii temporalis, secundum consuetudines feudales et Normannicas. 1636.
  • Descriptio juris et judicii ecclesiastici, secundum canones et consuetudines Anglicanas. 1636.
  • Descriptio iuris et iudicii militaris. 1640.
  • Juris et judicii fecialis sive juris inter gentes… explicatio. 1650.
  • Solutio quaestionis veteris et novae, sive de legati delinquentis judice competente. 1657.

The last two titles in particular distinguish Zouche as one of the earliest systematic authors on international law . Other sources refer to him as the first author. According to Thomas Erskine Holland , the English term "international law" coined by Jeremy Bentham goes back to Zouche's title jus inter gentes (1650, German law between peoples ). Holland identifies Zouch and Arthur Duck as the spiritual students of John Budden in the tradition founded by Alberico Gentili .

poetry

  • The Dove, or Passages of Cosmography. 1613.

Comedies

  • The Sophister '. 1639.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Zouche, Richard. In: The Encyclopedia Americana. 1920 ( wikisource ).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Thomas Erskine Holland: Zouche, Richard. In: Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900. Volume 63, ( wikisource ).
  3. ↑ a b c d BP Levack: Civil Lawyers in Eng. 1603-1641. 282; cited in Parishes: Ansty on British-History.ac.uk; accessed on May 22, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Zanchy-Zouch on British-History.ac.uk; Retrieved May 19, 2016.

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predecessor Office successor
John Budden Regius Professor of Civil Law (Oxford)
1620–1661 		Giles Sweit
Walter Walker (Canon Lawyer) Dean of Arches
around 1660 		Giles Sweit
personal data
SURNAME Zouch, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zouche, Richard; Zouche, Richardus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English judge, politician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1590
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1661