Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Palmer, Vernon V.

Description

ix, 323 p.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Microcosm of a mixed jurisdiction.

Subject

Law > Louisiana

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JSE 00-740

ISBN

0890898928

LCCN

99067316

OCLC

43349914

Title

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

Imprint

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c1999.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Palmer, Vernon V.

Research Call Number

JSE 00-740