Bulletin des arrêts du Tribunal de cassation, 1904-1906

The Bulletin des arrêts is the published record of the Tribunal de cassation, Haiti's court of final appeal. Each volume prints the rulings in full, each headed by the point of law decided, which makes the series usable: a reader can see how the court read a code article before reading the reasoning.

The title page reads ANNÉE 1906 and the dated audiences run 1904 to 1906, concentrated on 1906 and 1905.

Commerce and jurisdiction lead. Jurisdictional disputes at the top of a court system are a cost in themselves: every ruling on competence is a case that reached the final court without its merits being decided, and their frequency is one measure of how legible the court structure was to the parties using it.

Contract enforcement, the execution of judgments and the settlement of property claims are the constraints every business-climate diagnostic of Haiti names, and this series is the primary record of how the highest court actually decided them.