Manuscript records, in Spanish and French, of the proceedings in eight court cases involving local citizens and interests.

Volume 1 includes the records of three cases: Don Fermin Songy vs the succession of Don Pedro Rillieux, 1799- ; Hilario Boutte vs Claudio Chabot, 1791-1800 (in two sections); and Martin Braquier vs the succession of Colonel Don Gilberto Antonio de San Maxent, 1796-1798. The volume also includes minutes of the Court of Pleas for the Orleans Territory for the period March 1-September 20, 1804.

Volume 2 also includes the records of three cases: Don Lorenzo Sigur vs Dona Isabel Larroche, 1795-1796; Sigur vs Don Andres Almonester y Roxas, 1798; and Claudio Treme vs Don Gilberto Guillemard, 1804-1808 (including documents from as early as 1797).

The third volume includes the record of the proceedings instituted by Francisco Blache to execute the last will and testament of Luis Blondeau, 1799-1803.

Contained in the remaining six volumes is the extensive record of the succession of Don Gilberto Antonio de San Maxent, 1784-1803. San Maxent was one of the great landowners of Spanish Louisiana. The documents in the sixth book of this record, dated 1794-1795, appear to have been kept together separate from the remainder of the succession proceedings.

The documents comprising this series originally were bundles of loose papers. They subsequently were bound into the present volumes. Many of the documents filed in these records were prepared by and are signed by the notary publics of the city, including Pedro Pedesclaux, Rafael Perdomo, Narcisso Broutin, and Carlos Ximenes. Also included are documents signed by the members of the legal tribunals that heard the suits, including colonial governors Carondelet, Casa Calvo, Miro, Galvez, and Gayoso de Lemos.

Abstracts and/or partial translations are available for the records in Songy vs Rillieux, Boutte vs Chabot, Braquier vs San Maxent, Blache vs Blondeau, and one volume of the San Maxent succession.