...Guillermo A. Sherwell Guide to the law and legal literature of Argentina, Brazil and Chile . By Borchard Edwin M. , Professor of Law, Yale University; formerly Law Librarian, Library of Congress (1911-1916). [ Library of Congress ]. ( Washington : Government Printing Office , 1917...

...John K. Chance Justice by Insurance: The General Indian Court of Colonial Mexico and the Legal Aides of the Half-Real . By Borah Woodrow . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1983 . Map. Notes. Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxii , 479 . Cloth. $45.00...

...Victor M. Uribe-Uran Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400–1900 . By Benton Lauren A. . Studies in Comparative World History . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2002 . Bibliography. Index . xiii , 285 pp. Cloth , $65.00 . Paper , $20.00...

...Nara Milanich Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima . By Premo Bianca . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2005 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 350 pp. Cloth...

...Max S. Hering Torres Abstract Este artículo tiene por objetivo analizar los cruces entre la medicina legal y el naciente ejercicio de policía científica como un intento del Estado por hacer legible la criminalidad. Para realizar este propósito se analiza el papel que tuvieron la Oficina Central de...

...Robert J. Cottrol [email protected] Mastering the Law: Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire . By Ricardo Raúl Salazar Rey . Atlantic Crossings . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2020 . Photograph. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index...

...Arthur S. Aiton Un crimen de Hernán Cortés: La muerte de doña Catalina Xuares Marcayda (Estudio histórico y médico-legal) . By Toro Alfonso . ( Mexico City : Editorial Patria, S. A. , 1947 . 2nd ed. Pp. 175 . Paper.) Copyright 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 ...

...Donald Ramos Surprise Heirs . 2 vols. By Lewin Linda . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2003 . Vol. 1 , Illegitimacy, Patrimonial Rights, and Legal Nationalism in Luso-Brazilian Inheritance, 1750–1821 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxix , 214 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Vol...

...John N. Plank Civil Strife in Latin America: A Legal History of U.S. Involvement . By Kane William Everett . Foreword by Rogers William D. . Baltimore, Maryland and London, England , 1972 . The Johns Hopkins University Press (Published under the auspices of the American Society...

...Shoshana Tancer Business and Legal Aspects of Latin American Trade and Investment . Edited by Shea Donald R. and Swacker Frank W. . Milwaukee , 1976 . The University of Wisconsin . Tables. Graphs. Appendix . Pp. xix , 219 . Paper. Copyright 1978 by Duke University Press...

...Phanor J. Eder Guide to Law and Legal Literature of Central American Republics . By Schuster Edward . [ Bibliographies of Foreign Law Series No. 11 .] ( New York : American Foreign Law Association , 1937 . Pp. vi , 153 . $2.00 .) Copyright 1937 by Duke University Press 1937 ...

...Michael A. Morris The Andean Legal Order: A New Community Law . By García-Amador F. V. . Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. , 1978 . Oceana Publications . Notes. Appendixes . Pp. viii , 423 . Cloth. $30.00 . Copyright 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 This new book by the distinguished...

..., where those involved in disputes not only made their claims but also shaped a local legal culture that filled the politico-legal vacuum of the frontier. Two figures were instrumental in the construction of this order: the justice of the peace and the rural lawyer. Judges became the guarantors...

...Helen L. Clagett Guide to Interamerican Legal Studies. A Selective Bibliography of Works in English . Compiled by Bayitch S. A. . Coral Gables , 1957 . University of Miami Law Library . Pp. 297 . Paper . Copyright 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 ...

... and civil cases from New Mexico and Texas repeatedly demonstrate, defendants had several opportunities to state and recast their positions in the course of a trial; the courts systematically provided legal counsel; defendants successfully challenged the acceptability of potential witnesses; magistrates...

...Dawn Keremitsis From the House to the Streets: The Cuban Woman’s Movement for Legal Reform, 1898–1940 . By Stoner K. Lynn . Durham : Duke University Press , 1991 . Tables. Photographs. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 242 pp. Cloth , $45.50 . Paper...

...Keith S. Rosenn Despite these problems, Snyder has put together a highly original bibliographical collection that will be helpful not only to legal scholars and law students, but for social scientists as well. Two serious omissions make this book a far less useful reference tool than...

...Edwin Lieuwen Estudios acerca del régimen legal de petróleo en Venezuela . By Miranda Rufino González . Caracas , 1958 . Universidad Central de Venezuela . Pp. 562 . Paper. Copyright 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 ...

... of Buenos Aires, 1785–1870 (1998), Samuel Amaral posits that the Rural Code of 1865, in fact, merely codified traditional “habits and customs” of land tenure rather than establishing new practices (p. 154). Moreover, after 1778, when Spanish maritime laws opened up Buenos Aires as a legal port...

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