Latin American law : a history of private law and institutions in Spanish America / M C Mirow.

Austin : University of Texas Press, c2004.

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Law -- Latin America.

Civil law -- History -- Latin America.

Part 1. Colonial period: 1. Conquest and colonization

2. Structures and courts

3. Legal education and lawyers

4. Sources

5. Personal status

6. Land and inheritance

7. Commercial law

8. Slavery

9. Indian status and Indian land

Part 2. Independence and the nineteenth century: 10. Constitutions, codes, caudillos, and commerce

11. Private law and independence

12. Structures and courts

13. Legal education and lawyers

14. Sources

15. Codification

16. Personal status

17. Land and inheritance

18. Commercial law

Part 3. The twentieth century: 19. From Europe to America

20. Structures and courts

21. Legal education and lawyers

22. Sources

23. Personal status

24. Land and inheritance

25. Commercial law

26. Land reform

27. Development, investment; globalization, and an exception

28. The gap

Conclusion: the unfinished business of Latin American private law.

Includes bibliography and index.

0292702329

xvi, 343 p. : ill., maps.