Bulletin des arrêts du Tribunal de cassation, 1907-1912

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 dated audiences run from 1907 to 1912 with 1912 dominant, so the volume gathers several years into one.

Arpentage, land surveying, appears in the subject profile more often than in the neighbouring volumes. Surveying disputes are boundary disputes with a technical question attached, and their arrival at the court of final appeal is the sign of a land system in which the survey, not the register, is the evidence of extent. The corpus holds the CIAT cadastre draft bill and the modern land-tenure diagnostics, which describe the same problem a century later.

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.