The sources of the rules regarding the interpretation of laws of digeste des lois civiles (code civil) de la luisiana (1808/1825)

Abstract

In this article we analise the sources used by the authors of the first civil code enacted in America, in Louisiana to be precise, under the name of digeste des lois civiles, in 1808, to draft their rules regarding the interpretation of the law. We concluded that those sources are the pertinent norms of the project de code civil of 1800, prior to the code civil of 1804, certain passages of the [commentaries on the laws of england] by William Blackstone and a note to this work from its editor, Edward Cristian.