Hers, his, and theirs
Subtitle: community property law in Spain and early Texas
By: Jean A. Stuntz.
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lubbock, Tex
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780896725607
Subjects: Community property -- Texas -- History.; Community property -- Spain -- History.; Texas -- Civilization -- Spanish influences.
Description: "Traces, through legal documents and court cases, the roots of Texas community-property law to Castilian law during the Spanish Reconquest. Examines why Spanish community-property law developed so differently from elsewhere in Europe, why it survived in Texas, and what it offered that English common law did not"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The development of Spain and of Castilian law; value: Las Siete partidas; value: Family law in the partidas; value: The transfer of Castilian laws to new Spain; value: The Spanish legal system arrives in Texas; value: Women's status is case law from San Fernando de Béxar; value: The impact of English history on the development of English common law; value: The application of Spanish and English laws to Anglo-American settlers in Mexican Texas; value: The creation of the Republic of Texas and its legal system; value: The state of Texas and its legal system.