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! Through the Codes Darkly: Slave Law and Civil Law in Louisiana ↠ PDF Read by # Vernon Palmer eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Through the Codes Darkly: Slave Law and Civil Law in Louisiana A path-breaking and masterly study of Louisiana slave law, this fascinating study offers: - an examination of the complex French, Spanish, Roman and American heritage of Louisiana’s law of slavery and its codification - a profile of the first effort in modern history to integrate slavery into a European-style civil code, the 1808 Digest of Orleans - a trailblazing study of the unwritten laws of slavery and the legal impact of customs and practices developing outside of the Codes - an analy
| Title | : | Through the Codes Darkly: Slave Law and Civil Law in Louisiana |
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (576 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00P31LDG6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 402 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
A path-breaking and masterly study of Louisiana slave law, this fascinating study offers: - an examination of the complex French, Spanish, Roman and American heritage of Louisiana’s law of slavery and its codification - a profile of the first effort in modern history to integrate slavery into a European-style civil code, the 1808 Digest of Orleans - a trailblazing study of the unwritten laws of slavery and the legal impact of customs and practices developing outside of the Codes - an analysis that overturns the previous scholarly view that Roman law was the model for the Code Noir of 1685 - a new unabridged translation (by Palmer) of the Code Noir of 1724 with the original French text on facing pages. It’s probably because he is equally comfortable in the weeds of lived experience as he is poring over the pages of classical learning. --Lawrence N. xvi, 196 pp. He is the author of more than forty books and articles, including Mixed Jurisdictions Worldwide: The Third Legal Family (2nd ed., 2012), Mixed Jurisdictions Compared: The Private Law of Louisiana and Scotland (co-edited with Elspeth Reid) (2009), The Louisiana Civilian Experience: Critiques of Codification in a Mixed Jurisdiction (2005), Strict Liability in Europe (co-edited with Franz Werro) (2004), Pure Economic Loss in Europe (co-edited with Mauro Bussani) (2003), Louisiana: Microcosm of a Mixed Jurisdiction (1999), and The Paths to Privity: The History of Third Party Beneficiary Contracts at Eng
Cairns, FRSE, Chair of Legal History, University of EdinburghPalmer has written a path-breaking and splendid account of how Louisianians, newly under American rule, wrote the first modern codes that incorporated slavery in a systematic way into their civil law. --John W. The redactors of these codes implanted provisions about slavery into the law of persons, property, successions, sales and prescription, producing a unique Atlantic World slave law of incomparable richness and complexity unseen in other legal systems. --John W. These masterful essays on the Code Noir's origins, plus Louisiana's 150-year interplay between custom and legal practice, belong on the shelf of anyone with the faintest curiosity about human bondage and the laws fashioned to make it work. When it comes to demystifying slave law in Louisiana, Vernon Palmer is practically peerless. The redactors of the
. Vernon Valentine Palmer is Thomas Pickles Professor of Law at Tulane University and is Co-Director of the Eason-Weinmann Center of Comparative Law
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