INTRODUCTION
The dates of March 1825 to March 2025 marked 200 years in the existence of the Louisiana Civil Code and its implementation in Louisiana, the only mixed jurisdiction in a nation otherwise under the control of the common law tradition. The celebration of the Bicentennial Anniversary of the Civil Code of 1825 took place over the fall of 2024 and the spring of 2025 in the form of several conferences and scholarly gatherings around a multitude of topics presented by a local and international roster of prominent lecturers. This celebration presented the unique and challenging opportunity to undertake a legal retrospective on the modifications, deletions, additions, and borrowings that inevitably occurred over the last two centuries and had an impact, sometimes long-lasting, on some Code articles and many of the institutions that made up the original three books of the 1825 Civil Code …
Alain A Levasseur, Consideration, Detrimental Reliance, Promissory Estoppel – or the 1984 Common Law Rodents in the Louisiana Civil Code of 1825, 86 Louisiana Law Review 979 (2026).
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