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minus-squareMnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·6 days agoThis is actually true of the United States, as well. It’s Common Law for pretty much everywhere and Civil Law for Louisiana.
minus-squarebreecher@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 days agoAnd of course both in the case of US and Canada it is a legacy from the UK, which also have Common Law (unlike the rest of Europe).
minus-squareWest_of_West@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 days agoTIL. I knew Louisiana had a French history, but not that it maintenaned it in anyway, let alone through the legal code.
minus-squarechocrates@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoMy sister won’t take the bar anywhere else, I assume because she had to learn a ton of arcane Louisiana nonsense that doesn’t translate anywhere else
This is actually true of the United States, as well. It’s Common Law for pretty much everywhere and Civil Law for Louisiana.
And of course both in the case of US and Canada it is a legacy from the UK, which also have Common Law (unlike the rest of Europe).
TIL. I knew Louisiana had a French history, but not that it maintenaned it in anyway, let alone through the legal code.
My sister won’t take the bar anywhere else, I assume because she had to learn a ton of arcane Louisiana nonsense that doesn’t translate anywhere else