FABRO, Antonio (Faber Antonio, Antoine Favier). - French jurist, b. at Bourges en-Bresse on 4 Oct. 1557, d. at Chambéry on 10 March 1624. A pupil of the Jesuits, he then earned his doctorate in jurisprudence at the University of Turin. He subsequently worked as an advocate in Chambéry, then as a judge in various locations, and finally as a member and president of the Senate of Chambéry and governor of Savoy.
He belonged to the dogmatic trend of the “school of cults,” as evidenced by his Inscriptions Patibianae, the Rationalia in Pandectas (Lyons 1639–63), the Coniecturarum iuris civilis II. XX (ibid. 1661), but above all by the treatise De erroribus praemonicorum et interpretum iuris (ibid. 1508), in which he criticizes opinions based on erroneous interpretations stemming from the practical approach of the Glossators and the Bartolists. His practical work, arising from his activity as a magistrate, is instead represented by the Codex Fabricius definitionum (ibid. 1610), a reasoned collection of the “arrêts” of the Senate of Chambéry.