FABRO, ANTONIO (FABER ANTONIUS, ANTOINE FAIVRE). - French jurist, born at Bourges-en-Bresse on 4 October 1557, died at Chambéry on 1 March 1624. A pupil of the Jesuits, he subsequently took his doctorate in law at the University of Turin. He was then an advocate at Chambéry, later a judge in various localities, and finally a member and president of the Senate of Chambéry and governor of Savoy.
He belonged to the dogmatist tendency of the “school of the culti,” as is shown by his Iurisprudentia Papinianum, the Rationalia in Pandectus (Lyon 1659-63), and the Coniecturarum iuris civilis II. XX (ibid. 1661), but above all by the work De erroribus pragmaticorum et interpretum iuris (ibid. 1598), in which he criticizes opinions founded upon erroneous interpretations resulting from the practical orientation of the glossators and Bartolists. A practical work deriving from his activity as a magistrate, on the other hand, is the Codex Fabrianus definitionum (ibid. 1610), a systematic collection of the “decisions” of the Senate of Chambéry.