Hamilton's Mexican Law

2018. ISBN-13: 9781584779964. ISBN-10: 1584779969. Hamilton, Leonidas. Hamilton's Mexican Law: A Compilation of Mexican Legislation Affecting Foreigners, Commercial Law, Property Real and Personal, Rights Pertaining to the Inhabitants of the Republic, Sales, Prescription, Mortgages, Insolvency, Liens, Rights of Husband and Wife, Donations, Dower, Quit-Rent, Leases, Inheritance, Commercial Companies, Partnership, Agency, Corporations, Etc. Etc. Procedure, Attachment, Levy Under Execution, Property Exempt, Registry, Etc. Land Laws and Water Rights--Mexican Constitution--Jurisdiction of Courts--Writ of Amparo--Extracts from Treaties--Mexican Decisions of Federal and State Courts, And Mexican Mining Law. Annotated. Contracts, and Inheritances. xiii, 327, XII pp. Originally published: London: Stevens and Sons, [1882]. Reprinted 2022 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584779964. ISBN-10: 1584779969. Hardcover. New. $59.95 * A title in the Foundations of Spanish, Mexican and Civil Law series. Reprint of the only edition. A man of many talents, Hamilton [1850-1906] was a lawyer, writer, businessman and minister. He spent most of his career as an attorney in California, first in Merced, later in San Francisco. Active in Democratic state politics, he was a leading supporter of California's 1879 constitution and an unsuccessful candidate for the state senate. He is remembered today for his poem Ishtar and Izdubar, a retelling of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and his numerous guidebooks to Mexico for American businessmen. Hamilton's Mexican Law was the most important of these. Published in San Francisco and London in 1882, it was a standard work into the early 1900s.