Precedents have no binding force. They expressed their obediance but refused to apply the rules which did not fit into local circumstances. An attempt to reorganize the material by the Recopilacion de las Leyes de los Reinos de las Indias in 1680 failed. All universities were staffed by Spanish jurists. There is little autochthonous legal development, constitutions and most legislative acts are copied from Spain or other continental legal systems.
Legal science remains underdeveloped in Latin America.
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