FABROT, or FABROTUS, CHARLES-ANNIBAL, a jurist, was born at Aix, in Provence, in 1580 or 1581. In tho memoirs of the French jurists the names and conduct of their patrons generally occupy an important position : among those who were instrumental in bringing Fabrot into notice occur the names of two distinguished men, Fabri de Peirese and Bignou the avocat-general. With an interval of a short residence in Paris in 1617, Fabrot appears to have taught law in the University of Aix from the year 1609 to 1637, when he went to Paris to print his edition of the Institute of Theophilus,' or the Greek version of Justinian's Institute' (' Institutionum Justiniani Imperatoris Paraphrasis Groom, etc., recensuit, et Scholiia Grwcis auxit, Car. Anibal Fabrotus '). Having got access to the manuscripts in the possession of Cujacius, and to others in the public libraries, he long laboured in the preparation of an edition of the Basilica,' which, containing a version of the several parts of the Corpus Juris,' and also the additions made under the Eastern emperors, were, unless through the fragments edited in Latin by Hervetus, known to the jurists only in manuscript. Fabrot's edition
was published at Paris iu 1647 in 7 vols. folio ('Basilicorum Libri Sexaginta, cum Versione Latina C. A. Fabrotti at aliorum This edition contains thirty-three complete and ten incomplete books of the sixty. In 1658 Fabrot edited at Paris the works of Cujacius, in 10 vols. folio ; a well-known edition, but not well provided with means of reference. The labour connected with this work is said to have occasioned the death of its editor : he died at Paris on the 16th of January 1759. He wrote several minor works on jurisprudence, and some on the science now called medical jurisprudence, e. g., ‘Disquiaitiones dune : prior de Justo Partu—altera de Numero Puerperii.' Some of these minor works are in the Thesaurus June Romani' of Everard Otto.