Common Law Versus Civil Law: Louisiana
| “The principal object … was to provide a
remedy for the existing evil, of being obliged in many Cases to seek for our
Laws in an undigested mass of ancient edicts and Statutes, decisions
imperfectly recorded, and the contradictory opinions of Jurists; the whole
rendered more obscure, by the heavy attempts of commentators to explain them;
an evil magnified by the circumstance, that many of these Laws must be studied
in Languages not generally understood by the people, who are governed by their
provisions.” - Report of the
Committee on Proposed Revisions to the Louisiana
Code (1825) |
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