The ''Louisiana Civil Code'' (LCC) constitutes the core of
private law
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in the
State of Louisiana. The Louisiana
Civil Code
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is based on a more diverse set of sources than the laws of the other 49 states of the
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:
substantive law
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between private sector parties has a
civil law character, based on the
French civil code
A civil code is a codification of private law relating to property law, property, family law, family, and law of obligations, obligations.
A jurisdiction that has a civil code generally also has a code of civil procedure. In some jurisdiction ...
and
Spanish codes and ultimately
Roman law
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, with some
common law
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influences.
First enacted on March 31, 1808, in bilingual version as ''Louisiana Civil Code Digest'' ().,
[Official English title:: ''Digest of the Civil Laws now in Force in the Territory of Orleans, with Alterations and Amendments Adapted to its Present System of Government''.] it was drafted by the lawyers
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,
Louis Moreau-Lislet and
Edward Livingston. Afterwards it underwent continuous revisions and updates. It is still considered the controlling authority in the state; despite the strong influence of common law tradition, the civil law tradition is still deeply rooted in most aspects of Louisiana private law. Thus property, contractual, business entities structure, much of civil procedure, and family law, as well as some aspects of criminal law, are still based mostly on traditional Roman legal thinking.
See also
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Law of Louisiana
Law in the state of Louisiana is based on a more diverse set of sources than the laws of the other 49 states of the United States. Private law has a civil law character, based on French and Spanish codes and ultimately Roman law, with some ...
*
Edward Livingston
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Civil Law Commentaries
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Athanassios Nicholas Yiannopoulos
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Philip H. Morgan
References
Further reading
* Cairns, John W. (2015). ''Codification, transplants and history: law reform in Louisiana (1808) and Quebec (1866)''. Clark, NJ: Talbot Publishing.
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* Palmer, Vernon V. (2021). ''The lost translators of 1808 and the birth of civil law in Louisiana''. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press.
External links
Louisiana Civil Code
Civil codes
Louisiana law
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