2017
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Damien Salles, « Louis XIV et la codification des évocations de justice », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, ID : 10670/1.8eq5rb
*. – The ancient judicial system organization offers to the litigants the assistance of the évocation-récusation process. This legal means allows them, when their opponents have relatives or allies within a court of law, to ask for the case to be brought (évocation) before the king's reserved justice and his council. Legal means, but one which disrupts nonetheless the nor-mal judicial operations, as it leads to the full challenging ( récusation) of a court and its natural competences. Being bound by the good administration of his justice, the king has to assure its development, but also to prevent its abuses. In 1669, in the context of the state endeavours to codify and unify the law, while a large part of political issues of the Ancien Régime focus on legal proceedings, what is at stake for the Monarchy is to coalesce and ra-tionalise access to the courts. And this in both form and substance.