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Timo H. Schaefer

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Pages:: 130–154

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004436091_007

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This chapter is about the social history of the law in post-colonial Latin America. It describes substantive legal changes in areas such as property, family, and housing law, explores the geographical distribution of the tribunals and public-security forces that mediated between the law and Latin American citizens, and discusses the procedural innovations by which governments intended to move from a colonial to a republican culture of law. The chapter argues that the century between 1830 and 1930 was characterized by a constant struggle between liberalizing and illiberal tendencies in the legal culture of post-colonial Latin America: a struggle in which at first the liberalizing and then the illiberal tendency was ascendant but neither tendency at any time completely eclipsed the other.

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A Companion to Latin American Legal History

Series: Legal History Library, Volume: 64

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004436091

Publisher:: Brill | Nijhoff

Print Publication Date:: 25 Nov 2023

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- American Studies
  - Latin America
- History
  - Legal History

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