The Sources of Civil Order According to the Louisiana Civil Code

Article by Robert A. Pascal

Exegesis is the art of allowing a document to speak for itself. In this essay the Louisiana Revised Civil Code of 1870 and its predecessors, the Civil Code of 1825 and the Digest of the Civil Laws of 1808, will be allowed to do that on the subject of the formal and substantive sources of the principles and rules of civil order. Words, however, must be understood in the sense in which their writers used them and therefore references to sources outside these documents will be made for enlightenment as to their probable meanings in the Digest and Civil Codes.


About the Author

Robert A. Pascal. Professor of Law, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University.

Citation

54 Tul. L. Rev. 916 (1980)