The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-08-19

lEeUIRIEs INTO THE Law AND JURIsPRuDEKoE OF
lEsoLvENoY by L. Eyma, OF The New Orleans Bar.
This article appeared originally in the French
side of the Bee, We insert the translation with
much pleasure. Such work is much needed, and
Mr. Eyma is competent to prepare it:
This work, written in the English language, is
now in press. The title clearly shows its object
We have perused the work with care, and deem il
but just in manifesting our sincere appreciation o.
the conscientious industry of the author. This is
work of merit 1t is not an index, nor is it a
summary. The questions which the author has
chosen for his subject, those which interest, in
the highest degree, our commercial community,
touching upon the ordinary and extended
business relations between man and man, which
have, until the present moment, remained in a
shaPeless and confused state, dispersed here and
there, by the various Legislative dispositions rela-
tive thereto. He has studied the matter profoundly
with artistcal patience he has collected the frag-
nents; he has placed the DEGREES of the courts in
Juxta position with the texts of the law, and
arranged the various sections of his subject in a
lucid and comprehensive method and he has,
both in his preface and his notes, east upon the
work, philosophical color, reflection of pure
morality, so that the real object and the high dig
nifty OF the lnsolvent Laws are shown in bold
relief. Mr.. Eyma has had in view the object OF
the work for more than eight years, at which time,
we know, he laid his foundations. The public has
now for itself a code upon this subject.
The author avows in his preface that the Insol
vent Laws Of Louisiana are now nearly complete
and, are above all, impressed with uncommon wis.
dom. We take pleasure in mentioning this hom-
age to the morality of our laws expressed by one
so fully competent We entreat all business men
to procure copy of this work, on its appearance.
The theory of our laws and jurisprudence, on the
delicate relations between creditor and debtor, is
developed with such precision and care, it places
the work within the understanding of ALL 1t is
necessary and useful that every one should know
his rights and his duties. One of the first gratii-
cations which will result will be in seeing the old
prejudices giving way and popular reason brought
to the level of the law The paternal protection
with which the honest and unfortunate debtor is
surrounded will be understood, where on the other
hand 1t will be seen how fraud and deception is
punished The interest of every creditor is watched
over, and is especially the object of the law to
intervene in such calamities and save for the ben
eft OF the creditors, the property Of the debtor
from the wreck. This solicitude of the law is
taken from high order of social consideration.
Man has his natural and inalenable right to work
this right is taken away from him if he is ever
under the power OF harsh and disrustful creditors
1t is but just that the law should lend a helping
hand to the unfortunate honest man, and take him
from that vacuum where he is ever miserable
his is the moral which springs from the reatises
and laborious compilations of Mr.. Eyma. No one
Will or can complain. The reverses of fortune, as
the author truly states, frequently come upon you
as abruptly as death ITSELF and the device applies
itself in both cases with equal Hodis a,sfhf
eraS ttJi.