Louisiana's legal heritage
By: edited by Edward F. Haas ; foreword by Robert R. Macdonald.
Contributors: Haas, Edward F.; Louisiana State Museum.
Series: Studies in Louisiana culture
Publisher: Published for the Louisiana State Museum by Perdido Bay Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Pensacola, Fla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Law -- Louisiana -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Louisiana's legal heritage / Edward F. Haas; title: Le mari est seigneur / Vaughan Baker, Amos Simpson, and Mathé Allain; title: Do it! Don't do it! / Jack D.L. Holmes; title: The law of slavery in Spanish Louisiana, 1769-1803 / Hans W. Baade; title: The early sources of Louisiana law / A.N. Yianno-poulos; title: An overview of the work of the Territorial Court, 1804-1808, a missing chapter in the development of the Louisiana civil code / Richard H. Kilbourne, Jr.; title: Steamboats, towboats, and legal historiography / George Dargo; title: New light on the Slaughterhouse Monopoly Act of 1869 / Ronald M. Labbé; title: Reflections on the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 / Otto H. Olsen; title: Louisiana legal history and its sources / Warren M. Billings.