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[EAN: 9781236114419], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: .from the penal code was adopted in 1822; another in 1848; another, which is still in force, in 1870. The existing code of criminal procedure dates from 1882. A code of civil procedure was promulgated in 1855 and revised in 1881. In 1885 a commercial code was adopted. The attempts to unify the civil law encountered obstinate resistance, because of the attachment of the provinces to their ancient fueros. The law of real property was transformed, early in the century, by the abolition of feudal tenures and of entails, and an important law requiring the registration of conveyances, mortgages, etc., was adopted in 1861 (revised in 1871). Civil marriage was introduced in 1870. In 1888 a general civil code was adopted (revised in 1889), but this code has not given Spain a common law, for, except as regards the law of marriage, it does not derogate from the laws previously in force in Navarre, Aragon, Catalonia and the Balearic Isles; i.e. it has, in these provinces, only subsidiary force. In Catalonia the Roman law, civil and canon, is still subsidiary law. In the rest of the peninsula, however, the code of 1888-89 has replaced the older laws. Spanish Colonies. From the early part of the sixteenth century many laws were issued concerning the colonies. The earliest compilation of these laws was made in Mexico, in 1563, by Vasco de Puga. In 1570 was published, in Spain, a collection of Orders in Council affecting the colonies, and a fuller collection was made early in the seventeenth century. In 1680 a code of colonial laws was published--Recopilacion de las leyes de las Indias. (This was repeatedly revised, the last edition dating from 1841.) This code dealt chiefly with administrative matters, to some extent with crimes and penalties, hardly at all with private la.<

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