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)