Herencia e institución de legados en sucesiones vascas en Buenos Aires, 1750-1845

SIEGRIST DE GENTILE, Nora L.
; ÁLVAREZ GILA, Óscar

Publication year:

1999

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

84-8419-987-8

ISSN:

1136-6834

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Summary

The Basques emmigrants in America had to adapt to the difference in legal environments that regulated the inheritance systems in their place of origin and intheir new place of residence. In the Spanish era Castilian Law prevailed throughout the Indies; after the independence this Law was maintained in its essential characteristics, albeit with certain modifications. In both environments, the Basque immigrants tried to adapt the legal possibilities that were offered to them by American law to their own hereditary mores.