Louisiana : Microcosm of a mixed jurisdiction / edited by Vernon Valentine Palmer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Palmer, Vernon V.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Louisiana.

Law.

Louisiana.

Physical Description:

ix, 323 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Microcosm of a mixed jurisdiction.

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, 1999.

Contents:

Two worlds in one: the genesis of Louisiana's mixed legal system, 1803-1812 / Vernon Valentine Palmer

The death of the French language in Louisiana law / Roger K. Ward

The impact of a mixed jurisdiction on legal education, scholarship and law / Christopher L. Blakesley

The Louisiana judge: judge, statesman, politician / Symeon C. Symeonides

An abridged history of the absorption of American civil procedure and evidence in Louisiana / Kent A. Lambert

The king is lost upon the batture: or, how Edward Livingston momentarily reconverged the elements of sovereignty after they were refracted through the prism of the American constitution / Thomas W. Tucker

The business of arbitraging exhange rates and its influence on Louisiana's early law of bills and notes / Richard Holcombe Kilbourne, Jr.

The changing face of forced heirship: a new Louisiana creation / Kathryn Venturatos Lorio

Trust and the civil law: the Louisiana experience / A. N. Yiannopoulos

Comparative law in action: promissory estoppel, the civil law, and the mixed jurisdiction.

Daniel V. Snyder

An analysis of civil law authorities in State v. Martin / David A. Combe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0890898928

OCLC:

43349914