Institutiones Juris canonici tomus secundus 1866 r

Institutiones Juris canonici tomus secundus 1866 r - D. Bouix

Marie Dominique Bouix (b. 15 May 1808, at Bagnères-de-Bigorre, in the diocese of Tarbes; d. at Montech, France, 26 December 1870) was a French Jesuit canon lawyer.

In 1825, on the completion of his college course in an institution of his native town, he entered the Society of Jesus at Avignon, with his brother Marcel, and later taught the classics and occupied chairs of philosophy and theology in houses of the order. In 1842, when he was on the eve of his solemn profession, the precarious condition of his health rendered a continuance of the religious life impossible, and he obtained permission to retire from the society. This necessary withdrawal was a great disappointment to Bouix, who to the end of his life maintained the most cordial relations with his former brethren in religion, and received from them many evidences of a reciprocal regard.

He falls short of being a great canonist; he is too often compiler rather than a genuine author, and he too frequently betrays a lack of juridical sense, which comes more from practice than from theory, and the ability to pronounce justly on the lawfulness and unlawfulness of existing practices.