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The Commercial Code of Mexico and the Commercial Companies Act of Mexico (4th Edition, 2024) An
English translation with an Introduction and Indices, by Julio Romañach, Jr. isbn-13 (978-1-4004-0076-8) at US$240.00 per copy + US$20.00 Shipping & Handling per copy (USA destination) Published 2024, Paperbound 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 383 pages This updated fourth edition provides English translations of four separate Mexican
commercial acts: The Commercial Code of Mexico, the Commercial Companies Act or the business associations law of Mexico,
the Commercial Bankruptcy Law of Mexico, and the Foreign Investment Law of Mexico. These four commercial laws
are updated through June 10, 2024. The Commercial Code contains basic principles of commercial law applicable throughout
the Mexican Republic including contract formation, commercial sales, and many others. The Code contains both substantive
and procedural rules. In fact, the procedural rules constitute a veritable procedural code with specialized rules for
commercial lawsuits, as well as extensive rules on arbitration. The Commercial Code has been amended in recent years
to provide rules governing electronic commerce and recordation of commercial acts in Mexico. The Commercial Companies
Act is federal law and, as such, is applicable throughout the Mexican federation. The law provides general principles
applicable throughout the act and enumerates the various forms of private business associations including general partnerships,
partnerships in commendam, limited liability companies, corporations, in commendam companies by shares, cooperative assocations,
simplified companies by shares, and the variable capital company. The law also provides extensive rules on mergers,
transformation, and splits; dissolution of companies; and liquidation of companies. The Commercial Bankruptcy Law (Ley
de Concursos Mercantiles) was published in the Official Journal of the Federation on May 12, 2000, and has been amended
by the Mexican Congress from time-to-time. This statute, which governs the bankruptcy of commercial enterprises, consists
of three hundred and forty-two articles divided into fourteen titles. Article 1 declares the fundamental policy goal
of the statute to be the "preservation of commercial enterprises and the avoidance of ... generalized default of payment
obligations...". These policy goals are declared to be "matters of public interest". Accordingly,
throughout the statute there is an emphasis on reorganization of commercial enterprises, if at all possible, rather than liquidating
them and selling their assets to pay the creditors. The statute is divided into two fundamental stages: 1) Conciliation,
during which an attempt is made to preserve the commercial enterprise through reorganization, and 2) Liquidation, for cases
in which reorganization is simply not feasible. The Foreign Investment Law provides basic requirements and guidelines
for investment in the Mexican Republic by natural persons and business enterprises.
DICTIONARY OF MEXICAN LAW 2nd Edition
By: Julio Romañach, Jr., ATTORNEY AT LAW Admitted to the Louisiana and Florida Bars isbn-13 (978-1-4004-0045-4) Published 2019 Paperbound, 8 1/2 x 11
inches, 481 pages US$240.00 per copy + $20.00 S/H
The Dictionary of Mexican Law,
by Julio Romañach, Jr. contains definitions covering a broad spectrum of Mexican law including —
civil law and commercial law (reflected not only in the federal and representative state civil codes, but also in significant
codes and statutes embodying federal commercial law, such as the commercial code, the general law of negotiable instruments
and credit transactions [ley general de títulos y operaciones de crédito], the contract of insurance
law [ley sobre el contrato de seguro], the maritime navigation and commerce law [ley de la navegación
y comercio marítimos], the general law of commercial companies [ley general de sociedades mercantiles]
and other statutes), family law, torts, corporate law, procedural law (including the recently enacted federal class action
law [acciones colectivas]), constitutional law, and criminal law among others. The second
edition is a revised, updated and expanded version of the original edition published in 2012. The Mexican Federal Congress
has been particularly active in amending federal law in several important areas. These areas include revisions to the
Federal Constitution and to the following federal codes and statutes, among others: The Federal Civil Code; the Commercial
Code; the Commercial Companies Act or General Law of Commercial Companies; the Federal Labor Law; the Federal Insurance Law;
the Maritime Navigation and Commerce Law; the Civil Aviation Law; and the Federal Bankruptcy Law. In addition, the Federal
Congress has enacted several extremely important new codes and statutes, among which are: the National Code of Crimninal
Procedure (2014); the Oil and Gas Law (2014); and the Federal law of Environmental Liability (2013). While
the legal terms included in the Dictionary of Mexican Law are set forth in the Spanish original, all definitions
of these terms are written in the English language. Most definitions are derived from and cite to primary sources.
The definitions purport to provide an exposition of the meaning of a particular term or phrase in Mexican law,
with legislative context in many instances. The author translated many Mexican legislative enactments into
English while writing this dictionary and included significant excerpts from those translations, as well as excerpts from
his previously published English translations of the Federal Civil Code [Federal Civil Code of Mexico, An English translation with
an Introduction and Index by Julio Romañach,
Jr.] and the Commercial Code [Commercial Code of Mexico: Selected Substantive Provisions, An English translation with an Introduction and Index by Julio Romañach, Jr.] to provide that legislative context. In
view of the importance to lawyers in the USA of the Mexican states bordering the USA territorial boundaries, the bulk of the
terms in family law often cite to codes from representative Mexican border states.
No prior knowledge of the Spanish language or any familiarity with Mexican
legal terminology is needed to use this dictionary because it includes an English Language Index to Mexican Legal Terms,
arranged in alphabetical order, which points the user to relevant Mexican legal entries in Spanish (with their accompanying
legal definitions in English) located in this dictionary. The Dictionary of Mexican Law
is designed primarily for American legal professionals who, in their practice, encounter Mexican legal terms and concepts
in contracts, wills, government documents and other legal instruments; or who encounter such terms or concepts in legal negotiations
or in the course of litigation; or who have an interest in Mexican law and legal culture. In addition,
the extensive citations to relevant Mexican codes and statutes in the legal definitions of this dictionary provide the American
practitioner with a broader general understanding of the Mexican legal system’s primary sources of the law. Moreover,
a greater understanding of Mexican law facilitates communication with foreign counsel; enhances the American legal professional’s
use of his own analytical skills to spot issues; and helps minimize erroneous assumptions by the American legal professional.
FEDERAL CIVIL CODE OF MEXICO (English Translation)
3rd Edition 2024 An English translation with an introduction and indexby Julio Romañach, Jr. isbn-13 (978-1-4004-0075-1) US$240.00 per copy + $20.00 s/h Paperbound, 8 1/2 x
11 inches, 385pages
The Federal Civil Code is the backbone of the Mexican civil law system.
While all thirty-one states, as well as the Federal District (Mexico City) have civil codes of their own, the Federal Civil
Code is by far the most important one. That is so, for the following reasons: 1) It is directly applicable in
federal matters throughout the entire republic (See Article 1); 2) Since commercial law is federal law in Mexico,
the Federal Civil Code provides rules of decision in all commercial cases in which the Commercial Code makes a remission to
the Civil Code, as well as serving as a source of supplementary commercial law for areas not covered by the Commercial Code;
3) It is an essential source of gap fillers in all cases involving application of federal law, both commercial and non-commercial;
4) It has served as a model for most state civil codes, as well as the Civil Code for the Federal District (Mexico City) which
until the year 2000 was directly under the aegis of this Code. The third edition
of the Federal Civil Code of Mexico is a revised and updated version of the second edition of this Code. It contains
all legislative updates to codal provisions approved by the Mexican Congress as of June 6, 2024, as reflected in official
sources. This edition also contains editorial notes prepared by the translator and editor, Julio Romanach, jr., concentrating
on recent legal developments, primarily in family law, in the law of the Mexican Republic. This edition contains legislative
references to codal articles dating from the original effective date of this Code and extending to the present time.
The Federal Civil Code of Mexico remains one of the most significant bodies of law ever enacted in any jurisdiction.
The Mexican Congress has approved revisions from time-to-time, allowing the Federal Civil Code to remain a beacon of light
and justice, as well as a practical tool for the attorney seeking solutions to problems in which Mexican law provides the
rule of decision. It covers very broad areas, including: property, contracts, obligations, sales, leases, agency,
civil partnerships, successions, donations, and many others.
Family, Matrimonial Property, and Homestead
Laws of Selected Mexican States and the Federal District (Mexico
City) By: Julio Romañach, Jr. Published
2021 isbn-13 (978-1-4004-0058-4) US$240.00 per copy + $20.00 s/h Paperbound, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 270 pages This work contains the bulk of the family, matrimonial property, and homestead laws of three very significant
Mexican jurisdictions: 1) the Federal District (Mexico City); 2) the state of Nuevo Leon; and 3) the state of Tamaulipas.
The family laws contain the rules for contracting marriage; the rules governing the rights and obligations of the spouses
and of persons united in concubinage; rules relative to custody and support, both spousal as well as child support; the law
of divorce; and various other family law matters. The matrimonial property law sets forth the rules governing property aspects
of married persons, and persons united in concubinage, concentrating on two basic matrimonial property regimes: the
"conjugal partnership", which is, fundamentally, a community property system, and the separation of property matrimonial
regime. All three jurisdictions give considerable latitude to the spouses or concubinaries regarding their property
arrangement, generally allowing the principle of freedom of contract to prevail. In a manner comparable to the homestead
laws of various states of the United States of America, the homestead laws of the various Mexican jurisdictions seek to protect
the homeowner's dwelling from attachment by creditors, but only up to a certain statutorily defined amount. The rules
are different in each jurisdiction, but they all share the general theme of protecting the homeowner and a number of defined
beneficiaries. The question of whether the establishment of a homestead effects a transfer of title to the property
involved to the beneficiaries, likewise, is not answered in the same manner by all the jurisdictions involved. | |
Mexican Law of Sales: A Primer By: Julio Romañach, Jr. Published 1997 Paperbound 6 x 9" 186 pages isbn:0-9633610-3-1 US$75.00 + s/h This work examines the Mexican Law of Sales in a systematic manner, following a topical approach. Chapter I. General Principles
Chapter
II. Of the Subject
Matter of the Contract of Sale
Chapter
III. Transfer of Ownership and Risk
Chapter IV. Of Persons Capable of Buying and Selling
Chapter V. Of
the Obligations of the Seller
Chapter
VI. Of the Obligations
of the Buyer
Chapter VII.
Assignment of Rights; Exchange Chapter VIIl. Agreements Preparatory to the Sale; Aleatory Sales; Sales with Reservation of Ownership
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(2nd
Edition 2023) Cuban Civil, Commercial and Public Laws in English Translation in four volumes by Julio Romañach, Jr. Volume One,
Cuban Civil Laws and the Dictionary of Cuban Civil and Commercial Law includes: English
translations of the Cuban Civil Code of 1987 (current civil code with legislative updates); the new Cuban Family Code of 2022
and the prior Cuban Family Code of 1975; and a Dictionary of Cuban Civil and Commercial Law, authored
by Julio Romañach, Jr; Volume Two, Cuban Commercial Laws includes: English translations of the Cuban Commercial Code; the Cuban Commercial
Registry Law of 2001; the new Cuban Limited Liability Companies Law of 2021; Cuba's Fideicommissum (or trust)
as Security Law of 2020; the Cuban International Commercial Arbitration Law of 2007 and its Rules of Procedure approved
in 2018; the Cuban Navigation Law of 2013; the Cuban Negotiable Instruments Law of 2016; the Law
of Economic Contracting of 2012 and the Kinds of Contracts Law of 2012. Volume Three,
Cuban Public Law & Private International Law includes: English translations
of the Bustamante Code of Private International Law; the Cuban Foreign Investment Law and
Regulations thereto of 2014; the Sole Portal or Gateway for Foreign Investment of 2020; the Cuban Labor Code and Regulations
thereto of 2014; the Self-Employment Law of 2021; the Law of Expropriation for Reasons of Public
Utility or Social Interest in effect since May 29, 2023; the Cuban Constitution of 2019; the Cuban Constitution of 1976 and the Cuban Constitution of 1940; Volume Four, the Mortgage Law, The
Registry Laws and the Civil Code of 1889 includes: the Cuban Mortgage Law; the Cuban Law
of the System of Public Registries of 2015; Selected property registry provisions of the General Dwelling Law; selected provisions
of the Ministry of Justice Resolution of 2007 addressing norms and procedures for the Organization and Operations of the Public
Registry; and the Cuban Civil Code of 1889 with changes approved by the government of Cuba betwen May 20, 1902 and January 1, 1959. The price for this set (one copy of each
of the four volumes) is US$800.00 (which includes shipping & handling), when
the four-volume set is purchased for shipment to one destination in the USA. The isbn-13 for
the 4-volume set is (978-1-4004-0066-9). Volume One, Paperbound 8 1/2
x 11 inches, 421 pages; Volume Two, Paperbound 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 388 pages; Volume Three, Paperbound 8 1/2
x 11 inches, 426 pages; Volume Four, Paperbound 8 1/2 x 11 inches,
386 pages.
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