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

11. Of Criminal Trials and Prosecutions

318

328

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

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

360

8. Powers of Viceroys, Captains-general and Governors

367

9. Government of the Island of Cuba

373

10. Constitutive Acts of the Mexican Federation

374

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

,410

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

3. Arrêt pour rétrancher la moitié des concessions

623

624

634

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

pour faire un retranchement

635

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

d'en disposer

637

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

1676, jusqu'au 5 Septembre, 1679

639

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

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

641

TITLE

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

APPENDIX.

Panegyrique de l'Honorable George Mathews

673

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

701

WHITE'S

NEW RECOPILACION

OF THE

LAWS OF SPAIN AND THE INDIES,

AND OF

COLONIAL CHARTERS, COMMISSIONS, &c.