Mexican Civil Code

History of Mexican Civil Code

The first civil code was enacted by the state of Oxaca in 1828. This code was not only the first one in Mexico but also the first throughout Latin America.
Afterthis, it came the civil codes of Zacatecas (1829), Jalisco (1833) and Veracruz (1860).
At the national level, president Juárez asked Justo Sierra, an important jurist who worked as his Minister ofEducation, to produce a draft of a federal civil code. The draft was completed in 1860. This draft had a huge influenced of the Spanish civil code draft authored by García Goyena (1851), and the civilcode of Luisiana. The Federal Constitution of 1857, the Leyes de Reforma and the Civil Marriage Act of 1859 were also influential in the drafting of this national work. The sierra draft was publishedas the Civil Code of Mexican Empire by Maximilian of Hapsburg in 1866.
It existed the idea that the different states of the republic made their Civil Codes simply taking the code of the District. Butnot all the cases were like that, there were States that created original encodings.
When the second Empire fell and the Republic was restored, the development of the civil code of the FederalDistrict and the territory of Baja California was restarted.
It was created a new commission who drafted the code taking advantage of the work of Sierra and the Civil Code of the Mexican Empire. Thefinal draft came into effect on March 10, 1871 in the federal district and the territory of Baja California.
Subsequently, they made a Code of Civil Procedure that came into effect on 1872 in theFederal District and Baja California. After only three years of applicability, the Congress ordered the executive to create a commission to submit a modified draft. This led to the approval of a new Codeof Civil Procedure that became effective in 1880.
Finally, in 1883 the Congress authorized the executive to take place the appropriate reforms. In 1884 was approved the new Civil Code for the...