Hers, his, and theirs
Subtitle: community property law in Spain and early Texas
By: Jean A. Stuntz
Edition: [New ed.].
Series: American liberty & justice
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lubbock, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780896727175
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-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: title: The development of Spain and Castilian law; title: Las siete partidas; title: Family law in the partidas; title: The transfer of Castilian laws to new Spain; title: The Spanish legal system arrives in Texas; title: Women's status in case law from San Fernando de Béxar; title: The impact of English history on the development of English common law; title: The application of Spanish and English laws to Anglo-American settlers in  Mexican Texas; title: The creation of the Republic of Texas and its legal system; title: The state of Texas and its legal system.