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c on t e n ts

List of Illustrations : viii

Acknowledgments : ix
Introduction : xi

Prologue: Indigenous Law : 1

Part i: Colonial Period

1. Conquest and Colonization : 11
2. Structures and Courts : 19
3. Legal Education and Lawyers : 34
4. Sources : 45
5. Personal Status : 54
6. Land and Inheritance : 61
7. Commercial Law : 70
8. Slavery : 77
9. Indian Status and Indian Land : 84

Part ii: Independence and the Nineteenth Century

10. Constitutions, Codes, Caudillos, and Commerce : 97
11. Private Law and Independence : 102
12. Structures and Courts : 107
13. Legal Education and Lawyers : 116
14. Sources : 125
15. Codification : 133
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16. Personal Status : 143

17. Land and Inheritance : 150
18. Commercial Law : 155

Part iii: The Twentieth Century

19. From Europe to America : 167
20. Structures and Courts : 172
21. Legal Education and Lawyers : 184
22. Sources : 194
23. Personal Status : 200
24. Land and Inheritance : 205
25. Commercial Law : 210
26. Land Reform : 219
27. Development, Investment, Globalization, and an Exception : 228
28. The Gap : 235

Conclusion: The Unfinished Business of Latin American

Private Law : 239

Notes : 243
Glossary : 287
Bibliography : 301
Index : 321
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