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by Balgair
62 days ago
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Just so everyone here knows, any LA lawyer is a darn smart person. LA has kinda a dual legal system that it inherited from the French and Spanish codified law system out of Napoleon (yes that one), and ultimately from Roman law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Louisiana Just the first paragraph there is a confusing mess and the rest of the article doesn't get any better (to me at least). Suffice to say, having to pass the bar is tough enough, but having to do it while 'speaking two languages' in terms of law systems is so much more harder. |
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> Things that are not true: not every Louisiana lawyer is smart. Some of them are very dumb.
> You don’t have to speak 2 languages.
> Louisiana has a mixed jurisdiction, just like everywhere else in the United States. The difference is that common law relies on stare decisis, and Louisiana relies on the civil code as the basis for law.
> It is true that Louisiana originally took different parts of the law from historical bases that are uncommon for America. Our property law comes from the visigoths or something.
> However, the Napoleonic code did not actually arrive in Louisiana until two or three years after the civil code of Louisiana was officially adopted, so it is not based on Napoleon code, though that is frequently asserted.