The Louisiana civilian experience
Subtitle: critiques of codification in a mixed jurisdiction
By: by Vernon Valentine Palmer.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Civil law -- Louisiana -- History.; Law -- Louisiana -- Codification.
Other titles: Critiques of codification in a mixed jurisdiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene : Louisiana 1803-1812; title: Understanding Moreau Lislet; title: The French connection and the Spanish perception; title: The authors and origins of the Code Noir; title: The death of a code : the birth of a digest; title: Celebrating the Quebec codification achievement; title: The collapse of the general clause; title: The many guises of equity in a mixed jurisdiction.