TITLE

PAGE

4. Of the Delivery and Division of the Inheritance, and of Succession

ab intestato

111

5. Of Substitutions, Entails, and Legacies

118

6. Of Services

129

7. Of Pledges, Mortgages, Rent-charges, and Annuities

139

12. Of Commission, Authority, or Power of Attorney

182

17. Of Contracts, the fulfilment of which depends upon chances or a

20. Of the Proportion which the laws of Spain establish between

Crimes and Punishments

240

BOOK III.

TITLE

1. Of Jurisdiction, Judges, and Trials in Spain, in general

2. Of the difference of Jurisdiction, and of Competency

3. Of Plaintiff, Defendant, Proctor, Attorney and Advocate

4. Of Actions and Demands

5. Of Citation and Contestation

6. Of Exceptions

7. Of Proofs

8. Of Sentence

303

9. Of Appeal and Supplication

308

10. Of the Executive Process, or Mode of Proceeding

318

11. Of Criminal Trials and Prosecutions

328

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BOOK IV.

1. Of the Mode of Acquiring Dominion

2. Of Prescription, from Febrero Novisimo

3. Of Prescription, from Azevedo

4. Translation from Alvarez's Institute

5. Compendium of the History of Royal Law of Spain, from the In-

7. Custom, or Unwritten Law, from El Abogado Americano

8. Powers of Viceroys, Captains-general and Governors

9. Government of the Island of Cuba

10. Constitutive Acts of the Mexican Federation

11. Decrees of the Cortes of Spain, in force in Mexico

PAGE

341

345

349

350

352

356

1. Revocation des concessions non defrichées -

2. Arrêt pour l'etablissement de la Compagnie des Indes Occidentales

3. Arrêt pour rétrancher la moitié des concessions

623

624

4. Arrêt pour retrancher les concessions de trop grande étendue, et

pour faire un retranchement

5. Retranchement des concessions de trop grande étendue, et ordre

d'en disposer

6. Arrêt qui confirme les concessions faites depuis le 12 Octobre,

1676, jusqu'au 5 Septembre, 1679

7. Letters Patent, in form of a Proclamation, for the establishment of

a Trading Company, by the style of "Western Company"

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8. Arrest concernant la réunion des Compagnies des Indes Orientales

et de la Chine, à la Compagnie d'Occident

PAGE

652

9. Edit du Roy, portant confirmation des privileges accordez, conces-

sions et alienations faites, à la Compagnie des Indes

10. Declaration du Roi, concernant les concessions dans les Colonies

11. Declaration du Roi en interpretation de celle du 17 Juillet, 1743,

concernant les concessions des terres dans les Colonies

661

668

670

Opinion of Joseph M. White on a Case stated of Renaut's Claim

673

701

WHITE'S

NEW RECOPILACION

OF THE

LAWS OF SPAIN AND THE INDIES,

AND OF

COLONIAL CHARTERS, COMMISSIONS, &c.

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