A History of Missouri from the Earliest Explorations and Settlements Until the Admission of the State Into the Union Volume...

ISBN-10: 1230196048
ISBN-13: 9781230196046
Pages: 198
Language: English
Published: 2013-09
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Author: Louis Houck

Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... the colony (for no one was allowed to travel without a passport), to allow no one to settle in his district without express 1 2 Martin's History of Louisiana, p. 11. COUTUME DE PARIS 195 license and permission, to punish slaves, to entertain jurisdiction in civil cases--in lower Louisiana in cases involving less than $20; but in upper Louisiana for larger amounts, --to make inventory of estates of deceased persons and to attend sales under execution of judgments. In upper Louisiana all post commandants were subject to and under the control of the Lieutenant-Governor, residing at St. Louis, with the exception of the Commandant of New Madrid, who, until 1799, when the post of New Madrid was attached to upper Louisiana, exercised the powers of a sub-delegate, having a jurisdiction and authority independent of.the Lieutenant-Governor at St. Louis. Spanish was the official language,5 but the use of French was tolerated and finally in legal matters, says O'Reilly, an Abridgement of the Spanish Law "prepared by my assessor Don Manuel de Urrustia and by the advocate J)on Felix del Rey who made them by special commission from me," was made a guide in civil and criminal cases, for all public functionaries and for the people. This compendium, however, was merely an index to the body of the Spanish law. Thus the laws and customs "of the mayoralty and shreevalty of Paris" which were extended over "said country of Louisiana," by the seventh article of the Charter of Crozat, apparently, were superseded. Originally the "coutume de Paris" seems to have been selected by the advisers of the King of France, when he granted this charter, as the system of law under which Louisiana should be placed, because it was the...