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23 Legal Reference Services Q. 1 (2004)

handle is hein.journals/lgrefsq23 and id is 1 raw text is: A Bibliographic Survey of Sources for a Study of the Law of Colonial and Territorial Louisiana Carol D. Billings ABSTRACT. This bibliographic essay and research guide to the pre-state- hood legal materials of Louisiana will be a chapter in a forthcoming title, Pre-Statehood Legal Research: A Guide to the 50 States, Including New York City and the District of Columbia, from The Haworth Information Press, an Imprint of The Haworth Press, Inc. [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-HAWORTH. E-mail address: <docdelivery@haworthpress.com> Website: <hip./AwHaworihPress.com> @ 204 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved] KEYWORDS. Legal bibliography, Louisiana, colonial law, territorial law, civil law Louisiana's legal history prior to statehood spans exactly a century, 1712 to 1812. Nothing else about it is neat and tidy. The colonial period encompasses fifty years of French rule and forty-one years of Spanish authority, culminating in a brief reversion to French ownership just in time for the Louisiana Purchase in the spring of 1803. The United States then governed the Louisiana Territory until statehood was enacted in 1812. Yet documenting the state's early legal history requires reaching back centuries earlier into French and Spanish sources that still strongly Carol D. Billings is Director of the Law Library, Law Library of Louisiana, Su- preme Court Building, New Orleans, LA. Legal Reference Services Quarterly, Vol. 23(1) 2004 http://www.haworthpress.com/web/LRSQ @ 2004 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1300/J113v23n01 01 1