St. Lucia is located in the Eastern Caribbean Sea. The island has an area of 240 square miles. Colonized by France in 1635, the island was ceded to Britain in 1814 by the Treaty of Paris. From 1814 to 1885 as part of the Leeward Islands group the island was administered by the governor of Barbados. In 1958 it became part of the West Indies Federation. By the West Indies Act of 1967, St. Lucia became an Associated State of the United Kingdom until 1979 when it gained its full independence within the State of the Commonwealth of Nations.

The French legal system and institutions, which were firmly rooted in St. Lucia during the French colonial era, were inherited by the British in 1814. The Quebec Civil Code and the Code of Civil Procedure were adopted by the British government of the island to ensure that the civil law legal system remained part of St. Lucia law. With the enactment of these codes, a mixed legal system comprised of both the common law and the civil law coexisted in practice.

This collection of ordinances from 1913 to 1915 enacted by the Governor of St. Lucia where acquired by FIU Law Library from the Connecticut State Library.