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Article: Mechanics' liens and construction bonds under Louisiana law.(CONSTRUCTION CORNER)
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- Business Credit
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- June 1, 2006
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Louisiana is the only one of the 50 states which bases its legal system on civil, as opposed to common, law. These are the two prominent legal systems in the Western world. Common law is derived from the English legal system; civil law was originally administered in the Roman Empire and is still influential in continental Europe, Latin America, Scotland, and, of course, Louisiana, by way of France. Louisiana's main body of statutes is known as the Civil Code, which was also the name of the collection of legislation that embodied the law of Rome. France's 19th century codification was called the Napoleonic Code and it is from this work that a great part of the Louisiana ...