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2009

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The English Fox In The Louisiana Civil Law Chausse-Trappe: Civil Law Concepts In The English Language; Comparativists Beware!, Alain Levasseur, Vicenc Feliu Jan 2009

The English Fox In The Louisiana Civil Law Chausse-Trappe: Civil Law Concepts In The English Language; Comparativists Beware!, Alain Levasseur, Vicenc Feliu

Vicenç Feliú

The Avant-Projet of the French Law Obligations and the French Law of Prescriptions, which we will cite as the Projet-Catala, is a monumental undertaking to modernize Parts III and IV of Book Three of the French Civil Code, “Obligations,” and to continue the work of Jean Carbonnier who demonstrated “in transfiguring the first Book” that it was possible to “rehabilitate” the Code of 1804 “without damaging its structure or form.” “The program mobilized thirty-four persons” under the sponsorship of the Association Henri Capitant and was presented in the form of a “Rapport à Monsieur le Garde des Sceaux” in September …