This collection contains civil records from St. James Parish from the 18th and 19th centuries. Series include Original Acts, 1782-1787 and 1810-1819, and Conveyance Records, 1808-1810. There are two copies of reels 1 and 2. Reel 3 also contains Ascension Parish Original Acts Book A: Inventories and Sales (Judice Records), 1770-1787, and Book B. Inventories and Sales (Judice Records), 1788- ?, pp. 1-500.

The records were filmed by the Center for Louisiana Studies in 1971, as an extension of the Colonial Louisiana Records Collection. That collection was transferred to the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection in 2013.