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Louis Moreau-Lislet
Also Known As Moreau-Lislet
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French colonial-born lawyer who became the principal drafter of Louisiana private law codification. Commissioned with James Brown in 1806 to compile the existing French, Roman and Spanish civil law of the territory, he produced A Digest of the Civil Laws Now in Force in the Territory of Orleans, promulgated in 1808. After the 1817 Louisiana Supreme Court decision in Cottin v. Cottin exposed gaps in the 1808 Digest, the legislature commissioned Moreau-Lislet, Edward Livingston and Pierre Derbigny in 1822 to revise it; their Projet, approved in 1824, was promulgated as the Louisiana Civil Code of 1825, drafted in French with the French text held authoritative over its English translation. He also served as a judge for Orleans Parish, as Louisiana attorney general, and as a state senator.
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RoleCodifier and judge (Orleans Parish judge, Louisiana attorney general, state senator); principal drafter of the 1808 Digest and 1825 Louisiana Civil Code 1 Nationality / JurisdictionLouisiana, United States; civil law codification within an otherwise common law state 1 BirthplaceDondon, Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) 1 Place of DeathNew Orleans, Louisiana, United States 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Principal drafter; Edward Livingston and Pierre Derbigny served alongside him on the 1822 to 1824 revision commission and are not yet separately minted on this atlas.
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