Table of Contents

• Cover Page
• Foreword
• Abbreviations
• Synopsis
• Preliminary title Of the general definitions of rights and the promulgation of the laws
  • Chapter I Of law and customs
  • Chapter II Of the publication of the laws
  • Chapter III Of the effects of laws
  • Chapter IV Of the application and construction of laws
  • Chapter V Of the repeal of laws
• Book I Of persons
  • Title I Of the distinction of persons, and the privation of certain civil rights in certain cases
    • Chapter I Of the distinction of persons established by nature
    • Chapter II Of the distinctions of persons which are established by law
  • Title II Of domicil and the manner of changing the same
  • Title III Of absent persons
    • Chapter I Of the curatorship of absent persons
    • Chapter II Of the putting into provisional possession the heirs of the absentee
    • Chapter III Of the effects of absence upon the eventual rights which may belong to the absentee
    • Chapter IV Of the effects of absence respecting marriage
    • Chapter V Of the care of minor children whose father has disappeared
  • Title IV Of husband and wife
    • Chapter I On marriage
    • Chapter II How marriages may be contracted or made
    • Chapter III Of the nullity of marriages
    • Chapter IV Of the respective rights and duties of married persons
    • Chapter V Of the dissolution of marriages
    • Chapter VI Of second marriages
  • Title V Of the separation from bed and board
    • Chapter I Of the causes of separation from bed and board
    • Chapter II Of the proceedings on separation from bed and board
    • Chapter III Of the provisional proceedings to which a suit for separation may give occasion
    • Chapter IV Of objections to the action of separation from bed and board
    • Chapter V Of the effects of separation from bed and board
  • Title VI Of master and servant
    • Chapter I Of the several sorts of servants
    • Chapter II Of free servants
    • Chapter III Of slaves
  • Title VII Of father and child
    • Chapter I Of children in general
    • Chapter II Of legitimate children
      • Section I Of legitimacy resulting from marriage
      • Section II Of the manner of proving the legitimate filiation
    • Chapter III Of illegitimate children
      • Section I Of legitimation
      • Section II Of the acknowledgment of illegitimate children
    • Chapter IV Of adoption
    • Chapter V Of paternal authority
      • Section I Of the duties of parents towards their legitimate children, and of the duties of legitimate children towards their parents
      • Section II Of the duties of parents towards their natural children, and of the duties of natural children towards their parents
  • Title VIII Of minors, of their tutorship, curatorship and emancipation
    • Chapter I Of tutorship
      • Section I General dispositions
      • Section II Of tutorship by nature
      • Section III Of tutorship by will
      • Section IV Of the tutorship by the effect of the law
      • Section V Of dative tutorship
      • Section VI Of the under tutor
      • Section VII Of the causes which dispense or excuse from the tutorship
      • Section VIII Of incapacity for, exclusion from and deprivation of the tutorship
      • Section IX Of the administration of the tutor
    • Chapter II Of the curatorship of minors
    • Chapter III Of emancipation
  • Title IX Of persons insane, idiots, and other persons incapable of administering their estate
    • Chapter I Of the interdiction and curatorship of persons incapable of administering their estate, whether on account of insanity or of some other infirmity
    • Chapter II Of the other persons to whom curators are appointed
  • Title X Of communities or corporations
    • Chapter I Of the nature of communities or corporations, of their use and kind
    • Chapter II Of the rights and privileges of communities or corporations and of their incapacities
    • Chapter III Of the dissolution of communities or corporations
• Book II Of things and of the different modifications of property
  • Title I Of things or estates
    • Chapter I Of the distinction of things or estates
    • Chapter II Of immoveables
    • Chapter III Of moveables
    • Chapter IV Of estates considered in their relation to those who possess them
  • Title II Of absolute ownership
    • Chapter I Universal principles
    • Chapter II Of the right of accession to what is produced by the thing
    • Chapter III Of the right of accession to what unites or incorporates itself to the thing
      • Section I Of the right of accession concerning immoveables
      • Section II Of the right of accession concerning moveable things
  • Title III Of usufruct, use and habitation
    • Chapter I Of usufruct
      • Section I General definitions
      • Section II Of the rights of the usufructuary
      • Section III Of the obligations of the usufructuary
      • Section IV Of the obligations of the owner
      • Section V How usufruct expires
    • Chapter II Of the use and habitation
  • Title IV Of predial services or services of land
    • Chapter I General principles
    • Chapter II Of services which originate from the natural situation of the place
    • Chapter III Of services imposed by law
      • Section I Of walls, fences, and ditches in common
      • Section II Of the distance and of the intermediary works required for certain buildings
      • Section III Of lights on the property of a neighbor
      • Section IV Of the manner of carrying off rain from the roof
      • Section V Of the right of passage
    • Chapter IV Of services established by the act of man
      • Section I Of the different kinds of services which may be established by the act of man
      • Section II How services are acquired
      • Section III Of the rights of the proprietor of the estate to which the service is due
      • Section IV How Services are extinguished
• Book III Of the different manners of acquiring the property of things
  • Preliminary title General dispositions
  • Title I Of successions
    • Chapter I Of the different sorts of successions and heirs
    • Chapter II Of legal successions
      • Section I General rules
      • Section II Of the succession of descendants
      • Section III Of the succession of ascendants
      • Section IV Of the succession of collaterals
    • Chapter III Of irregular successions
    • Chapter IV In what manner successions are opened
    • Chapter V Of the incapacity and unworthiness of the heirs
    • Chapter VI In what manner a succession is accepted and how it is renounced
      • Section I Of the acceptance pure and simple
      • Section II Of the acceptance of a succession with the benefit of an inventory
    • Chapter VII Of the administration of vacant estates and estates ab intestato
    • Chapter VIII Of partition among heirs and of the collation of goods
      • Section I Of the nature of partition and in what manner it is made
      • Section II Of the collation of goods
      • Section III Of the payment of debts
      • Section IV Of the effect of partition and of its rescision
  • Title II Of donations inter vivos (between living persons) and mortis causa (in prospect of death)
    • Chapter I General dispositions
    • Chapter II Of the capacity necessary for disposing of and receiving by donation inter vivos or mortis causa
    • Chapter III Of the portion disposable, and of its reduction in case of excess
      • Section I Of the disposable portion and the legitime
      • Section II Of the reduction of dispositions inter vivos or mortis causa; of the manner in which it is made and of its effects
    • Chapter IV Of dispositions reprobated by the law in donations inter vivos and mortis causa
    • Chapter V Of donations inter vivos (between living)
      • Section I Of the irrevocability of donations inter vivos
      • Section II Of the form of donations inter vivos
      • Section III Of the exceptions to the rule of the irrevocability of donations inter vivos
    • Chapter VI Of dispositions mortis causa (in the prospect of death)
      • Section I Of testament or codicil
      • Section II Of the form of testaments and codicils
      • Section III Of testamentary dispositions
      • Section IV Of the institution of heir and of disinherison
      • Section V Of legacies
      • Section VI Of the opening and the proof of wills, and of testamentary executions
      • Section VII Of the revocation of testaments and codicils and of their caducity
      • Section VIII Of the interpretation of testamentary dispositions
    • Chapter VII Of partitions made by parents among their descendants
    • Chapter VIII Of donations made by marriage contract to the husband or wife, and to the children to be born of the marriage
    • Chapter IX Of donations between married persons, either by marriage contract, or during the marriage
  • Title III Of contracts and of conventional obligations in general
    • Chapter I Preliminary dispositions
    • Chapter II Of the conditions essential to the validity of agreements
      • Section I Of consent
      • Section II Of the capability of the parties contracting
      • Section III Of the object and the matter of contracts
      • Section IV Of the cause
    • Chapter III Of the effect of obligations
      • Section I General dispositions
      • Section II Of the obligation of giving
      • Section III Of the obligations of doing or of not doing
      • Section IV Of the damages resulting from the non execution of the obligation
      • Section V Of the interpretation of the agreements
      • Section VI Of the effect of agreements with regard to persons not parties to them
    • Chapter IV Of the different kinds of obligations
      • Section I Of conditional obligations
        • § 1 Of the condition in general and of its different kinds
        • § 2 Of the suspensive condition
        • § 3 Of the dissolving condition
      • Section II Of obligations to be performed at a certain term
      • Section III Of the alternative obligations
      • Section IV Of obligations in solido or jointly and severally
        • § 1 Of the obligation in solido between creditors
        • § 2 Of the obligation in solido on the part of debtors
      • Section V Of obligations divisible and indivisible
        • § 1 Of the effects of a divisible obligation
        • § 2 Of the effect of the indivisible obligation
      • Section VI Of obligations with penal clauses
    • Chapter V Of the extinction of obligations
      • Section I Of payment
        • § 1 Of payment in general
        • § 2 Of payment with subrogation
        • § 3 Of the imputation of payments
        • § 4 Of tenders of payment, and consignment
        • § 5 Of the surrender of property
      • Section II Of novation
      • Section III Of the remission of the debt
      • Section IV Of compensation
      • Section V Of confusion
      • Section VI Of the loss of the thing due
      • Section VII Of the action of nullity or of rescission of agreements
    • Chapter VI Of the proof of obligations and of that of payment
      • Section I Of the literal proof
        • § 1 Of the authentic title
        • § 2 Of the acts under private signature
        • § 3 Of copies of titles
        • § 4 Of recognitive and confirmative acts
      • Section II Of testimonial proof
      • Section III Of presumptions
        • § 1 Of presumptions established by law
        • § 2 Of presumption not established by law
      • Section IV Of the confession of the party
      • Section V Of the proof by oath
  • Title IV Of engagements formed without agreements, or of quasi contracts and quasi offences
    • Section I Of the quasi contract
    • Section II Of quasi crimes or offences
  • Title V Of marriage contract
    • Chapter I General dispositions
    • Chapter II Of the various kinds of matrimonial agreements
      • Section I Of donations made in consideration of marriage
      • Section II Of dowry or marriage portion
      • Section III Of paraphernalia or extra dotal effects
      • Section IV Of the partnership or community of acquests or gains
    • Chapter III Of the separation of property
  • Title VI Of sale
    • Chapter I Of the nature and form of the contract of sale, and of the manner in which it is to be performed
    • Chapter II Of persons capable of buying and selling, and of things which may be sold
    • Chapter III Of the obligations of the seller
      • Section I Of the tradition or delivery of the thing sold
      • Section II Of the warranty, in case of eviction of the thing sold
      • Section III Of the warranty of the defects of the thing sold or of the redhibitory vices
    • Chapter IV Of the obligations of the buyer
    • Chapter V Of the nullity and rescissions of the sale
      • Section I Of the power or right of redemption
      • Section II Of the rescission of sales on account of lesion
    • Chapter VI Of sales by cant or auction
    • Chapter VII Of the assignment or transfer of debts and other incorporeal rights
  • Title VII Of exchange
  • Title VIII Of letting and hiring
    • Chapter I Of the several species of contracts for letting and hiring
    • Chapter II Of the contract for letting out things
      • Section I Of the form and duration of leases
      • Section II Of the obligations of the lessor
      • Section III Of the obligations of the lessee
      • Section IV Of the dissolution of leases
    • Chapter III Of the letting out of labour or industry
      • Section I Of the hiring of servants and workmen
      • Section II Of carriers and watermen
      • Section III Of plots for buildings and other works
  • Title IX Of partnership
    • Chapter I General dispositions
    • Chapter II Of the various kinds of partnerships
    • Chapter III Of the obligations of partners towards each other, and towards third persons
      • Section I Of the obligations of partners towards each other
      • Section II Of the obligations of partners towards third persons
    • Chapter IV Of the different manners in which partnerships end
  • Title X Of loan
    • Chapter I Of the loan for use or commodatum
      • Section I Of the nature of the loan for use
      • Section II Of the engagements of the borrower for use
      • Section III Of the engagements of the lender for use
    • Chapter II Of the loan for consumption or mutuum
      • Section I Of the nature of the loan for consumption
      • Section II Of the obligations of the lender for consumption
      • Section III Of the engagements of the borrower for consumption
    • Chapter III Of loan on interest
  • Title XI Of deposit and sequestration
    • Chapter I Of deposit in general and of its divers kinds
    • Chapter II Of the deposit properly so called
      • Section I Of the nature and essence of the contract of deposit
      • Section II Of the obligations of the depository
      • Section III Of the obligations of him by whom the deposit has been made
      • Section IV Of the necessary deposit
    • Chapter III Of sequestration
      • Section I Of its different species
      • Section II Of the conventional sequestration
      • Section III Of the judicial sequestration or deposit
  • Title XII Of aleatory contracts
  • Title XIII Of mandate or commission
    • Chapter I Of the nature of proxies, mandates and commissions
    • Chapter II What persons may be appointed attornies in fact
    • Chapter III Of the obligations of a person acting under a power of attorney
    • Chapter IV Of the obligations of the principal who acts by his attorney in fact
    • Chapter V How the procuration expires
  • Title XIV Of suretyship
    • Chapter I Of the nature and extent of suretyship
    • Chapter II Of the effects of suretyship
      • Section I Of the effects of suretyship between the creditor and the surety
      • Section II Of the effects of suretyship between the debtor and the surety
      • Section III Respecting the effects of suretyship between the sureties
    • Chapter III Of the extinction of suretyship
    • Chapter IV Of the legal and judicial sureties
  • Title XV Of transactions
  • Title XVI Of respite
  • Title XVII Of compromises or arbitration
  • Title XVIII Of pledge
  • Title XIX Of privileges and mortgages
    • Chapter I Of the nature of a mortgage and of its several sorts
    • Chapter II Who may mortgage and what thing may be mortgaged
    • Chapter III Of the effects of mortgage
      • Section I Of the effects of mortgage with regard to the debtor
      • Section II Of the effects of mortgages against third possessors and of the action of mortgage
      • Section III Of the registering of mortgages and of the register kept for that purpose
    • Chapter IV Of the order of privileges and mortgages
      • Section I Of the preference and order of privileges
    • Chapter V How privileges or mortgages expire or are extinguished
  • Title XX Of occupancy, possession and prescription
    • Chapter I Of occupancy
    • Chapter II Of possession
    • Chapter III Of prescription
      • Section I Of the possession required to establish prescription
      • Section II Of the causes which suspend or interrupt prescriptions
      • Section III Of the several species of prescription
  • Title XXI Of the title by judgment or seizure
• Index
• Manuscript index
• Manuscript index Part 2

EXPLANATION OF THE ABBREVIATIONS DESIGNATING THE VARIOUS CODES OF LAWS AND AUTHORS CITED IN MARGINAL NOTES TO THE LAWS OF THIS STATE

LAWS

L. 5. t. 3. Part. 3 means law 5 title 3 of the third Partida.
L. 1. t. 2. liv. 3 Fuero R. means law 1, title 2, book 3 of the Fuero Real.
L. 2. t. 5. liv. 5. Rec. Cast. means law 2, title 5 of the book 5 of the Recopilacion of Castile (Nueva Recopilacion).
Auto 1. t. 5. liv. 5-means the first Auto, title 5, book of the Autos Accordados.
L. 5. t. 2. liv. 5. Rec. ind-means law 5, title 2, book 5 of the Recopilacion of the Indies.
L. 1^ere Toro-means the first law of Toro.
L. 4. sect. 2. t. 1. liv. 1. v. 1. P. 2. Dom. means law 4, section 2, title 1, book 1, volume 1, page 2 of Domat, Civil Laws, folio edition in French.

AUTHORS

Febrero Contratos, n° 1. §. 1. ch. 1. v. 1. Part. 1 p. 27 means number 1, paragraph 1, chapter 1 of volume 1 page 27 of the first part of the Libreria de escribanos of Febrero, treating of testaments and of contracts, 3^rd edition.
Feb. Jui...N° 2: §. 1. ch. 1., liv. 2. vol. 2 part. 2. p. 11. means number 2, paragraph 1, chapter 1, book 2, volume 2 page 11 of part 2 of the Libreria de escribanos of Febrero, treating of Trials (Juicios) in 3 volumes, 3^rd edition.
Cur. N° 1., part 1 T. 1 P.-means Curia Philipica number 1, part 1, volume (tome) 1, page.
Poth. Obligations vol. 1. N° 1. P. 1 means Pothier, Treatise on Obligations, volume 1, number 1, page 1. Edition in twelve.
Rod. or R. vol. 1. p. 1. which one finds following citations to Justinian's Digest means the translation of the Digest into Spanish by Rodriguez, volume 1, p. 1.

N.B. Translation into English by Mitchell Franklin, An Important Document in the History of American Roman and Civil Law: The De La Vergne Manuscript, originally published in 33 Tul. L. Rev. 39-42 (1958).  Reprinted with the permission of the Tulane Law Review Association, which holds the copyright.

EXPLICATION DES ABBRÉVIATIONS PAR LESQUELLES SONT DÉSIGNÉS LES DIVERS CODES DE LOIX ET LES AUTEURS CITÉS DANS LES NOTES EN MARGE DES LOIX DE CET ETAT

LOIX

L. 5. t. 3. Part. 3. signifie loi 5. titre 3 de la troisième partida.
L. 1. t. 2. liv. 3. Fuero R. signifie loi 1. titre 2. livre 3. du Fuero Real.
L. 2. t. 5. liv. 5 Rec. Cast. signifie loi 2. titre 5. livre 5. de la Récopilation de Castille.
Auto 1. t. 5. liv. 5. – signifie Auto 1er. tit. 5. liv. 5. des Autos Accordados.
L. 5. t. 2. liv. 5. Rec. Ind – signifie loi 5. titre 2. livre 5 de la Récopilation des Indes.
L. 1ere Toro- signifie loi première de Toro.
L. 4. sect. 2. t. 1. liv. 1. v. 1. P. 2. Dom. signifie loi 4. Section 2. titre 1er. livre 1. volume 1. page 2. Domat Loix Civiles Edition in folis en français.

AUTEURS

Febrero Contratos. N. 1. §. 1. ch. 1. v. 1. Part. 1. p. 27. – Signifie numéro 1. paragraphe 1. chapitre 1er du volume 1er. page 27. de la première partie de la libréria de Escribanos de Febrero, trattant des testamens et contrats en 3 volumes 3eme Edition.
Feb. Jui… N. 2. §. 1. ch. 1. liv. 2. vol. 2. Part. 2. p. 11. Signifie numéro 2. paragraphe 1er. chapitre 1er. livre 2d. volume 2d. page 11 de la seconde partie de la Libreria De Escribanos de Febrero, traitant des Procès (Juicios) en 3 volumes 3eme Edition.
Cur. N. 1. Part. 1. T. 1. P. – signifie Curia Philipica n. 1. Partie 1ere. Tome 1er. page.
Poth. Obligation vol. 1. N. 1. P. 1. signifie Pothier traité des obligations volume 1er. numéro 1. page 1. Edition in Douze.
Rod. ou R. vol. 1. p.1. qu'on trouve à la suite des citations du Digeste de Justinien, signifie la traduction en Espagnol de ce Digeste par Rodriguez, volume 1er. P. 1.