The Planiol Treatise on the Civil Law: French and Louisiana Law for Comparative Study

Abstract

The English translation of the long-famous Planiol treatise on the civil law1 is a very significant contribution to the increasing potential of comparative legal studies in English language areas. Comparative law, as such, probably goes back to the early centuries of the first communications between different communities, but its development along scientific and scholarly lines is a fairly recent matter. Within the present generation, there has been both an intensive and an extensive surge in this development, primarily in Western Europe but also in the United States and in other countries.