The Lost Translators of 1808 and the Birth of Civil Law in Louisiana
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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 commission, and the translators never identified themselves. Indeed, the "translators of 1808" guarded their secret so well that their identities...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0820358339
ISBN13:9780820358338
Release Date:February 2021
Publisher:University of Georgia Press
Length:158 Pages
Weight:0.89 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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