id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4234 Johannes Voet - Wikipedia .html text/html 834 110 67 Voet is one of the so-called "old authorities" of Roman-Dutch law, along with Hugo Grotius, Simon van Leeuwen (nl), Joan Cos, Gerhard Noodt, Zacharias Huber, Cornelius van Bynkershoek, Hobins van der Vorm, Gerloff Scheltinga (de), Willem Schorer (nl), Franciscus Lievens Kersteman, J. From 1680 to his death he was a professor and the chair of law at Leiden, being twice elected as rector.[1]:327 He was a deacon in the Dutch Reformed Church and later worked for the Church as an accountant. Unlike the work of Hugo Grotius and Simon van Leeuwen with which Voet's Commentary has been compared, Voet, as a teacher of law, wrote in Latin and not Dutch, as Latin at the time was the teaching language. ^ a b c d e "Chapter 35 of 'Notes on the History and Development of the Roman-Dutch Law'". Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLI identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4234.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4234.txt