Excerpt from The Civil Law in Spain and Spanish-America: Including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Philippine Islands, and the Spanish Civil Code in Force, Annotated and With References to the Civil Codes of Mexico, Central and South America At the beginning of the Nineteenth Century, it was estimated that the general and provincial codes already published embraced something like one hundred thousand different enactments; and since that time, marked by the disintegration of the bodv of their laws and the modern scientific classification of legislation, the number of codes, laws, amendments and revisions issued are bewildering. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.