Background
Litvinoff, Saul was born on March 15, 1925 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
(The Louisiana law of obligations, contained in Titles III...)
The Louisiana law of obligations, contained in Titles III and IV of Book III of the Louisiana Civil Code, was extensively revised by Act 331 of the 1984 regular session of Legislature, effective January 1, 1985. That revision of the law, enacted on the recommendation of the Louisiana State Law Institute, made indispensable a revision of this coursebook, the first edition of which was published in 1979. The second edition, which saw the light in 1985, had as its main purpose a comparison of earlier decisions and doctrine with the new law in order to show what had been preserved and what had been changed. Since the publication of that second edition, numerous decisions have been rendered by Louisiana courts applying the new law, and several scholarly discussions thereof have appeared in law reviews. The purpose of the present third edition is to incorporate the most relevant new material, though without discarding earlier decisions of important didactic value be! cause of their impact on the development of the Louisiana law of obligations. To aid the reader in relating the new law to the old one, the present edition contains two features not found in the previoius one. The first is that, in some of the decisions that have been reprinted here, the article numbers of provisions enacted in 1984, that are equivalent to provisions of the code of 1870 cited in those decisions, are given in brackets after the pertinent citations. The second is that Appendix B of the present edition sets forth the complete text of the articles on obligations of the Louisiana Civil Code of 1870, copies of which may no longer be readily available. Since the third edition of this work appeared in 1991, important legislative and jurisprudential developments have made indispensable the preparation of a new edition in order to keep up to date the materials of which this coursebook is comprised. An effort has been made to illustrate the judicial application of the articles on obligations of the Louisiana Civil Code with decisions of recent date, although that endeavor has not been possible in every case because the conclusions reached in some earlier decisions have valiantly defied the passing of time and are still prevailing jurisprudential doctrine. Students of the civil law, to whom this coursebook is dedicated, should be aware that the judicial decisions and fragments of scholarly writings herein contained are only an illustration of the interpretation of, and commentary on, the articles of the civil code to which they are carefully referred. This volume, thus, merely accompanies Book III, Titles III and IV of the Louisiana Civil code.
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Litvinoff, Saul was born on March 15, 1925 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Bachelor of Arts Buenos Aires, 1944. Bachelor of Laws, University Buenos Aires, 1949. Doctor of Juridical Science, University Buenos Aires, 1956.
Doctor of Science, University Buenos Aires, 1956. Master of Laws, Yale University, 1964.
Associate Ibero Berenguer & Associate, Buenos Aires, 1949—1954, partner, 1954—1959. Senior partner Merlino Litvinoff & Rodriguez. Visiting professor University Puerto Rico, 1963—1965, Louisiana State University, 1965—1967, associate professor, 1967, professor, 1970—1985, Boyd professor, 1985—1993, Boyd professor & Stockwell professor, since 1993, director Center Civil Law Studies, 1977—2005.
Visiting professor Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 1986—1994.
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Member of Argentine Bar, Louisiana State Bar Institute, Honduras Bar (honorary), Costa Rica Bar (honorary), Argentine National Academy Legal Science, Order of the Coif.
Widowed; 1 child.