Jean Cabassut (Cabassutius)
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Cabassut (Cabassutius), Jean
an eminent Roman canonist, was born at Aix, in Provence, 1604 or 1605, entered the congregation of the Oratory 1626, and died at Aix, agedeighty-one, Sept. 25, 1685. At Rome he was regarded as an oracle in every thing relating to the canon law and casuistry, and a good Oriental scholar. He wrote Juris Canonici theoria et praxis (4to, 1696, 1698, and by Gibert, with notes, etc., 1738); also Historiarum, Conciliorum et Canonuminvicem collatorum veterumque Ecclesice rituum, ab ipsis Ecclesice incunabulis ad nostra usque tempora, notitia ecclesiastica (best ed. Lugd.1685, fol.; again, Lyons, 1725; and in an abridged form, 1776, 8vo).
