A Law Unto Itself?

by Billings, Warren M.; Fernandez, Mark F.

• ISBN13: 9780807125830
• ISBN10: 0807125830
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(22)
Mark F. Fernandez
Louisiana Legal History: Past, Present, and Future
Part I BOOKS AND THE LAW	23	(54)
A Course of Legal Studies	25	(15)
Warren M. Billings
Books That Shaped Louisiana Law
``The People's Friend---The Tyrant's Foe''	40	(18)
Florence M. Jumonville
Law-Related New Orleans Imprints, 1803--1860
Case Law Reporters in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana	58	(19)
Carla Downer Pritchett
Part II JUDGES AND COURTS	77	(62)
Local Justice in the Territory of Orleans	79	(20)
Mark F. Fernandez
W.C.C. Claiborne's Courts, Judges, and Justices of the Peace
Louisiana's Court of Errors and Appeals, 1843--1846	99	(18)
Sheridan E. Young
Of Generals and Jurists	117	(22)
Thomas W. Helis
The Judicial System of New Orleans under Union Occupation, May 1862---April 1865
Part III LAW AND SOCIETY	139	(72)
``Forever Free from the Bonds of Slavery''	141	(37)
Judith Kelleher Schafer
Emancipation in New Orleans, 1855--1857
Defiant Women and the Supreme Court of Louisiana in the Nineteenth Century	178	(13)
Kathryn Page
Imperfect Equality	191	(20)
Ellen Holmes Pearson
The Legal Status of Free People of Color in New Orleans, 1803--1860
Contributors	211	(2)
Index	213