Civil Code of Haiti, annotated by Abel-Nicolas Léger, Volume 1
- Second edition of 1986; the first edition was 1931, so the annotations carry more than half a century of Haitian and French case law.
- Opens with the Constitution of 1918 as amended in 1928, which is the source of the '1928' misdating found in secondary catalogs.
- Covers the code from article 1 through succession and the rights of the surviving spouse.
- Annotated by Abel-Nicolas Léger, advocate of the Port-au-Prince bar and member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague.
The first volume of the Haitian civil code as annotated by Abel-Nicolas Léger from Haitian and French doctrine and case law, second edition published by Les Éditions Fardin at Port-au-Prince in 1986 (first edition 1931). The volume opens with the Constitution of 1918 as amended in 1928 and then runs through the civil code from article 1, covering persons, property and the earlier law of obligations, including succession and the rights of the surviving spouse. Léger was an advocate of the Port-au-Prince bar, a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague and a former professor of civil law, and his annotations are what make this edition the working reference rather than a bare statute text.
How to cite
Government of Haiti, 1986, Civil Code of Haiti, annotated by Abel-Nicolas Léger, Volume 1, https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/AA/00/00/10/25/00002/AA00001025_00002.pdf