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The lost translators of 1808 and the birth of civil law in Louisiana /
"In 1808 the legislature of the Louisiana territory appointed two men to translate the Digest of the Laws in Force in the Territory of Orleans (or, as it was called at the time, simply the Code) from the original French into English. Those officials, however, did not reveal who received the com...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, Georgia :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Southern legal studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "All rise: The Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans is now in session"
- The hunt for the lost translators of 1808
- Henry Paul Nugent : the story of a mercurial man
- Auguste Davezac de Castera : the life of an eloquent docteur
- Reexamining and exhuming a pioneer translation
- Appendix: Selected writings of Henry Paul Nugent and Auguste Valentin Genevieve Davezac de Castera.