Download or read book Spanish and Mexican Land Laws in Early Texas written by Ricki K. Shults Janicek and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hers His and Theirs written by Jean A. Stuntz and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Traces, through legal documents and court cases, the roots of Texas community-property law to Castilian law during the Spanish Reconquest. Examines why Spanish community-property law developed so differently from elsewhere in Europe, why it survived in Texas, and what it offered that English common law did not"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Early Laws of Texas General Laws from 1836 to 1879 Also Laws of 1731 to 1835 as Found in the Laws and Decrees of Spain Relating to Land in Mexico and of Mexico Relating to Colonization Laws of Coahuila and Texas Laws of Tamaulipas Colonial Contracts Spanish Civil Law Orders and Decrees of the Provisional Government of Texas written by Texas and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spanish and Mexican Land Grants and the Law written by Malcolm Ebright and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Laws of Texas written by Texas and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Laws of Texas written by Texas and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spanish and Mexican Land Laws written by Matthew Givens Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book That They May Possess the Land written by Galen D. Greaser and published by Galen D. Greaser. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That They May Possess the Land: The Spanish and Mexican Land Commissioners of Texas (1720-1836) by Galen D. Greaser (author) The grievances accumulated by Anglo-American settlers in Mexican Texas in the 1830s did not include complaints about the generous land grants the government had offered them on advantageous terms. Land ownership is central to the history of Texas, and the land grants awarded in Spanish and Mexican Texas are intrinsic to the story. Population in exchange for land was the prevailing strategy of Spain’s and Mexico’s colonization policy in what is now Texas. Population was the objective; colonization the strategy; and land the incentive. Spain and Mexico defined the formal procedures, qualifications, and conditions for obtaining a land grant. Colonization was a two-part process involving, first, the relocation of colonists from their place of origin to the new site and, second, the placement of colonists on the land in conditions that would enable them to become productive citizens. The colonization effort featured the use of private recruiting agents – empresarios - to assist with the first task. Government agents - land commissioners –oversaw the second objective. Title to some twenty-six million acres of Texas land, about one-seventh of its present area, derives from the land grants made by Spain and Mexico to its settlers. A land commissioner played a part in every case. The story of the empresarios who contributed to the colonization of Texas is a staple of Texas history, but an account of the land commissioners engaged in this process is given here for the first time. The cast of commissioners features, among others, a Spanish field marshal, a Dutch baron, a cashiered United States army colonel, a philandering state official, a self-serving opportunist, an Alamo defender, and a Tejano patriot. Drawn largely from primary sources and richly documented, this sometimes contentious story of the Spanish and Mexican land commissioners of Texas helps complete the narrative of the colonization of Texas and the history of its public domain. This study is a reminder of another lasting legacy of Spanish and Mexican sovereignty in Texas, their land grants.
Download or read book Early Laws of Texas written by Texas and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development of Early Mexican Land Policy written by Ricki Shults Janicek and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index to Spanish and Mexican Land Grants written by Virginia H. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once Texas established jurisdiction over the territory between the Nueces and Rio Grande it became necessary to prove the validity of spanish and Mexican claims in that area. The first step taken was the appointment of the Bourland and Miller Commission to examine titles if they existed, and if not, to obtain evidence from witnesses in order to recommend or reject confirmation on "principles of jsutice and the laws, ordinances, rules, and customs of the government under which the claim originated."
Download or read book The Public Land System of Texas 1823 1910 written by Reuben McKitrick and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Laws of Texas written by Texas and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Laws of Texas General Laws from 1836 to 1879 Also Laws of 1731 to 1835 As Found in the Laws and Decrees of Spain Relating to Land in Mexico written by Texas and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...resident, unless the leading process in the suit has been executed. on the person of the defendant when within this republic. 8.--That when two or more persons not residing in this republic are jointly indebted, either as joint obligors, partners, or otherwise, then the writ or writs of attachment may be issued against the separate or joint estates of such debtors, or any of them, either by their proper names or by the name and style of the partnership, or by whatever any other name or names such joint debtors shall be generally reputed, known or distinguished within this republic, or against the heirs, executors or administrators of them, or any of them, and the lands, tenements, goods, chattels and effects, rights and credits of such debtors, or any of them, shall be liable to be seized and taken for the satisfaction of any such debt or other demand, and may be sold to satisfy the same. 9.--That attachments may be levied on the defendant's goods and chattels, and the manner of executing an attachment shall be by the oflieer's going to the house in which, or to the person in whose possession, the defendant's goods or chattels are supposed to be, and then and there declaring, in the presence of one or more credible persons of the neighborhood, that he attaches the said goods or other effects; from and after which declaration the goods, money and efl'ects so attached shall remain in the custody of the officer levying on the same, unless the defendant, his or her agent or attorney, or some other person, replevy the same by giving bond and security in double the amount of the plaintiff's demand, conditioned that if the defendant be condemned in the action, he shall return the specific property attached, and in...
Download or read book Texas Land Grants 1750 1900 written by John Martin Davis, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas land grants were one of the largest public land distributions in American history. Induced by titles and estates, Spanish adventurers ventured into the frontier, followed by traders and artisans. West Texas was described as "Great Space of Land Unknown" and Spanish sovereigns wanted to fill that void. Gaining independence from Spain, Mexico launched a land grant program with contractors who recruited emigrants. After the Texas Revolution in 1835, a system of Castilian edicts and English common law came into use. Lacking hard currency, land became the coin of the realm and the Republic gave generous grants to loyal first families and veterans. Through multiple homestead programs, more than 200 million acres had been deeded by the end of the 19th century. The author has relied on close examination of special acts, charters and litigation, including many previously overlooked documents.
Download or read book Early Laws of Texas written by Texas and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mexican American Experience in Texas written by Martha Menchaca and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical overview of Mexican Americans' social and economic experiences in Texas For hundreds of years, Mexican Americans in Texas have fought against political oppression and exclusion—in courtrooms, in schools, at the ballot box, and beyond. Through a detailed exploration of this long battle for equality, this book illuminates critical moments of both struggle and triumph in the Mexican American experience. Martha Menchaca begins with the Spanish settlement of Texas, exploring how Mexican Americans’ racial heritage limited their incorporation into society after the territory’s annexation. She then illustrates their political struggles in the nineteenth century as they tried to assert their legal rights of citizenship and retain possession of their land, and goes on to explore their fight, in the twentieth century, against educational segregation, jury exclusion, and housing covenants. It was only in 1967, she shows, that the collective pressure placed on the state government by Mexican American and African American activists led to the beginning of desegregation. Menchaca concludes with a look at the crucial roles that Mexican Americans have played in national politics, education, philanthropy, and culture, while acknowledging the important work remaining to be done in the struggle for equality.
