Small v. Strong – Arkansas, 1840 (2 Ark. 98)
Map of French North America, 1732 - courtesy Wikimedia Commons | William Clark, explorer and first governor of Upper Louisiana Territory (1810) (artist: Thomas Sully) - courtesy Wikimedia Commons “We are endeavouring to establish the empire of the laws.” – Edward Bates (Missouri), ____ “Ignorant of all the principles of our Government, they [French settlers] view things with an evil eye.” - __ (Missouri), ____ “It is our wish to assimilate by insensible means, the habits and customs of the American and French inhabitants.” –Judge John Coburn (Louisiana Territory, including Arkansas) (1807) “Instead of preserving the civil law, as it existed in Louisiana … the Legislature … have entirely discarded the civil law, and adopted in its stead the common law.” - Chief Justice Daniel Ringo, in Small |
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