A New Collection of Laws, Charters and Local Ordinances of the Governments of Great Britain, France and Spain: Relating to the Concessions of Land in Their Respective Colonies, Together With the Laws of Mexico and Texas on the Same Subject

White, Joseph M. [1781-1839]. [Jordan de Asso y del Rio, Ignacio (1742-1804)]. [Manuel y Rodriquez, Miguel de (fl. 1780)]. A New Collection of Laws, Charters and Local Ordinances of the Governments of Great Britain, France and Spain: Relating to the Concessions of Land in their Respective Colonies, Together with the Laws of Mexico and Texas on the Same Subject, to Which is Prefixed Judge Johnson's Translation of Azo and Manuel's Institutes of the Civil Law of Spain. Philadelphia: T. & J.W. Johnson, 1839. 2 Volumes. With a new introduction by Agustin Parise, Research Associate, Center of Civil Law Studies, Louisiana State University Law Center. Reprint available 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-979-7. ISBN-10: 1-58477-979-9. Cloth. $195. * From the series, Foundations of Spanish, Mexican and Civil Law. Warren Billings, Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, University of New Orleans, and Visiting Professor of Law, William and Mary School of Law, Series Editor. Reprint of the first and only edition. Volume I contains Institutes of the Civil Law of Spain, a translation by Judge Johnson of Trinidad of the Instituciones del Derecho Civil de Castilla by Ignacio Jordan de Asso y del Rio, the mode of acquiring dominion from the Instituciones de Derecho Real de Espana by Jose Maria Alvarez and material reprinted from Laws of the State of Coahuila and Texas and Laws, Orders and Contracts, on Colonization, from January, 1821, up to 1829 edited by Stephen Austin. White was a Delegate from the Florida Territory to the U.S. House of Representatives from 1824 to 1837. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 5300. (see also 5290 and 5281).