VOET, JOHANNES

(1647–1713)

Jurist. Voet was appointed profes sor of law at the Universityof Utrechtand in 1680 at the University of Leiden. His Commentarius ad Pandectas (1698–1704), a com mentary on the Pandects, a part of the Corpus Iuris Civilis promul gated in 534 by the Roman emperor Justinian I, has won fame as an important source for the knowledge of Roman-Dutch law, especially in South Africa. It has been translated into English (as The Selective Voet,Being the Commentary on the Pandects [Paris Edition of 1829] by Johannes Voet and the Supplement to that Work by Joannes van der Linden, transl. by Percival Gane, 8 vols., 1955–1958).