The New International Encyclopædia/Casault, Louis Napoleon

CASAULT, kȧ′zō̇′, Sir Louis Napoleon (1822—). A Canadian jurist, born at Saint Thomas. He was admitted to the bar in 1847, and from 1854 to 1858 was a member, for Montmagny, of the Canadian Legislative Assembly. From 1867 to 1870 he represented Bellechasse in the Canadian House of Commons. He was professor of commercial and maritime law in Laval University from 1858 to 1891, and puisne judge of the Superior Court of Quebec in 1870-91. In 1891 he became Assistant Chief Justice of the court, and in 1894 Chief Justice. He was one of the three commissioners appointed to adjust accounts between Ontario and Quebec, and between those provinces and the Dominion.