Notarial Archives COLLECTION
(Mss
289)
Inventory
Earl K.
Long Library
October
1997
Contents
Summary
Historical
Note
List
of Series
Container
List
Index
Terms
Procedures
for Requesting Special Collections Materials
Summary
Size: 21 linear
feet (60 volumes)
Geographic
locations:
Inclusive dates: 1928-1962
Bulk dates: 1929-1961
Summary: Bound volumes
containing notarial acts compiled by notaries Milton E. Burglass and Cecil M.
Burglass, both individually and jointly, and A. Konrad Lagarde. The acts pertain almost exclusively to sales
of movables with chattel mortgages, or simple chattel mortgages. They involve the purchase and/or the
mortgaging of household furniture or furnishings, appliances, radios,
automobiles and trucks, shop machinery and equipment, or vessels.
Source: Deposit, 1997
Access: No
restrictions
Copyright: Physical
rights reside with the Earl K. Long Library,
Citation: Notarial
Archives Collection, Earl K. Long Library,
Historical Note
According to “The Plan Book Drawings
of the New Orleans Notarial Archives” by Sally K. Reeves,[1] “The
New Orleans Notarial Archives was created by an act of the Louisiana State
Legislature in 1867. It is the only
notarial archives in the
“Notarial acts in civil law
jurisdictions are in essence contracts between living people or officially
recorded declarations by individuals. In
“The civil law notary is a highly
trained professional who transcribes into documentary language the agreements
or individual declarations of parties who appear before him. The notary then functions as an archivist of
the document he creates. The notary is a
semipublic official whose signature to a document guarantees the identity of
appearing parties, along with the authenticity of their agreements and the
genuineness of their signatures. Unlike
the modern attorney representing the interests of one side in a transaction,
the traditional notary is a disinterested third party who represents both
sides. He makes sure that the contracts
he witnesses are neither onerous (unfair to one side) nor vague, which would
make them subject to litigation later. . . . In trying to ensure that
acts were flawless and thus not prone to be litigated later, the law set itself
up as a benign influence that promoted stability in society, championed the
family, and provided a secure and inexpensive framework for citizens to conduct
their private business. They used the
notarial act to ascertain and give permanent evidence to their rights. They could count on that evidence because the
act bears on its face all that is needed for a legal contract. . . .
Notarial acts involving more than one party are invariably amicable
agreements. They represent what
functions in society, not what malfunctions,” and they “generally reflect
relationships between private parties, not between the individual and the
state” (pp. 82-83).
“By law, the notary had a serious
obligation to preserve his acts indefinitely.
As a precaution against fire, he had to locate his étude or
office in a brick building with a tile roof.
He had to bind and conserve his acts and plans in chronological order
within prescribed intervals and make them available for public inspection
during regular hours. He also had
exclusive right to make `true’ or authenticated copies from his acts, the
intellectual concept for which derives from medieval times” (p. 84).
“Before 1867 the
On deposit at the
Acts
of Milton and Cecil Burglass:
Ø name of
mortgage company (A. Burglass,
Ø name,
address, marital status of mortgagor
Ø address
to which newly purchased furniture must be delivered (usually)
Ø value,
date, and terms of mortgage
Ø description
of items purchased
Ø original
signatures
Ø some
mortgagors are from outlying parishes, such as Lafourche
Ø volumes
sampled are indexed
Acts
of A. Konrad Lagarde:
Ø name of
lending company
Ø name,
parish, street address (usually) of borrower
Ø value
and terms of loan
Ø movables
generally mortgaged:
automobiles:
maker, type, model name, status [new/used]
trucks,
motorcycles
household
furniture (all rooms, with descriptors)
small
business equipment and machinery of grocers, bakers, etc.
amusement
machines (e.g., pinball)
vessels
(description, tonnage, name, etc.)
Ø original
signatures
Ø some
from out of parish
Ø volumes
sampled are indexed.
List of Series
Series
II. Volumes compiled by
the notary Cecil M. Burglass, 1931-1938 (12 volumes).
Series
III. Volumes compiled
jointly by notaries C. M. Burglass and Milton Burglass, 1939-1941 (23
volumes).
Series
IV. Volumes compiled
by A. Konrad Lagarde, N.P., 1939-1962 (21 volumes).
Container List
Volume 1 1928,
November - December.
Volume 2 1929,
January - December.
Volume 3 1930,
January - December.
Volume 4 1931,
January - June.
Series II. Volumes
compiled by the notary Cecil M. Burglass, 1931-1938 (12 volumes).
Volume 1 1931,
July - December.
Volume 2 1932,
January - December.
Volume 3 1933,
January - December.
Volume 4 1934,
January - December.
Volume 5 1935,
January - December.
Volume 6 1936,
January - July.
Volume 7 1936,
August - December.
Volume 8 1937,
January - July.
Volume 9 1937,
August - December.
Volume 10 1938,
January - June 4.
Volume 11 1938,
June 6 - October 10.
Volume 12 1938,
October 10 - December.
Series III. Volumes compiled jointly by notaries C. M. Burglass and Milton
Burglass, 1939-1941 (23 volumes).
Volume 1 1939,
January - April.
Volume 2 1939,
May - August.
Volume 3 1939,
September - December.
Volume 4 1940,
January - May.
Volume 5 1940,
June - October 14.
Volume 6 1940,
October 14 - December.
Volume 7 1941,
January - March 27.
Volume 8 1941,
March 28 - June 9.
Volume 9 1941,
June 9 - August 8.
Volume 10 1941,
August 9 - October 22.
Volume 11 1941,
October 22 - December.
Volume 12 1942,
January - April.
Volume 13 1942,
May - July.
Volume 14 1942,
August - December.
Volume 15 1943,
January - December.
Volume 16 1944,
January - December.
Volume 17 1945,
January - December.
Volume 18 1946,
January - December.
Volume 19 1947,
January - December.
Volume 20 1948,
January - June.
Volume 21 1948,
July - December.
Volume 22 1949,
January - November.
Volume 23 1949,
December.
Series IV. Volumes
compiled by A. Konrad Lagarde, N.P., 1939-1962 (21 volumes).
Volume 1 1939,
December 14 - December 31.
1940,
January - December.
1941,
January - July 31.
Volume 2 1941,
August 1 - December.
1942,
January - May 22.
Volume 3 1942,
May 23 - December.
Volume 4 1943,
January 1 - June 18.
Volume 5 1943,
June 19 - December.
1944,
January - March 31.
Volume 6 1944,
April - December.
Volume 7 1945,
January - June.
Volume 8 1945,
July - December.
Volume 9 1946,
January - June.
Volume 10 1946,
July - December.
Volume 11 1947,
January - July 22.
Volume 12 1947,
July 23 - December.
1948,
January - July 13.
Volume 13 1949,
January - December.
Volume 14 1950,
January - December.
Volume 15 1951,
January - December.
Volume 16 1952,
January - December.
Volume 17 1953,
January - December.
Volume 18 1954,
January - December.
1955,
January - December.
Volume 19 1956,
January - December.
1957,
January - December.
Volume 20 1958,
January - December.
1959,
January - December.
Volume 21 1960,
January - December.
1961,
January - December.
1962,
January - March.
Index Terms
Burglass, Cecil M.
Burglass, Milton
Lagarde, A. Konrad
Notarial Archives
Notaries—