HAITI. - Civil Code of Haiti. Au Port-au-Prince, De l'Imprim - Lot 63

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HAITI. - Civil Code of Haiti. Au Port-au-Prince, De l'Imprim - Lot 63
HAITI. - Civil Code of Haiti. Au Port-au-Prince, De l'Imprimerie du Gouvernement, March 1826. In-12, fawn Russian half leather with small corners, smooth spine decorated, yellow chiselled edges (contemporary binding). Sabin, No. 29568. Original edition of the first Haitian civil code. Very rare. The Haitian Civil Code, in its last version after the vote of Parliament, is made up of thirty-six laws put together. These laws, voted separately and article by article, contain 2047 articles and embrace, in a logical order, the main lines of the French code: certain general principles of law, the law of persons and the family, the law of succession and property and the law of obligations, with certain modifications inspired by Haitian women's customs. ...] From 1826 to the present day, just 180 years ago, the Haitian Civil Code is still considered a legal monument that we dare not touch, despite attempts to overhaul the public authorities (Gélin-Collot, "Le Code civil haïtien et son histoire" in Bulletin de la Société d'histoire de la Guadeloupe, n°146-147, 2007, p. 178). Let us recall that Haiti, formerly Santo Domingo, became, in January 1804, the first French colony in the New World to free itself from the metropolis. First and last notebooks printed on bluish paper. Three leaf stain, freckles. Rubbing at the binding.
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