Foundations of Governance and Law: An Essay on Law's Evolution in Colonial Spanish America

The contemporary legal systems of Latin America were all established on institutional foundations that had evolved during not only the course of four centuries of Spanish and Portuguese colonial rule, but also from the fusion of pre-existing institutions formed in previous evolutionary processes. Th...

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Main Author: JOHN O. HALEY
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de La Sabana 2009-01-01
Series:Díkaion
Online Access:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=72012329008