Boston College International and Comparative Law Review Volume 2 Article 5 Issue 2 Latin American Commercial Law Symposium 1-1-1979 Mexican Commercial Law, 1854-1884 Robert C. Means Follow this and additional works at: http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/iclr Part of the Commercial Law Commons, and the Legal History Commons Recommended Citation Robert C. Means, Mexican Commercial Law, 1854-1884, 2 B.C. Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 299 (1979), http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/iclr/vol2/iss2/5 This Symposium Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Boston College International and Comparative Law Review by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Mexican Commercial Law, 1854-1884* by Robert C. Means * * I. INTRODUCTION On January 1, 1881, the first Honduran commercial code entered into force. What the event signified for Honduras I do not know. One of the event's incidental by-products, however, was that Mexico was left as the only Latin American country lacking a national commercial code. This fact is odd enough in itself: in both legal culture and commercial development Mexico ranked among the most advanced countries of Latin America. It is the odder because Mexico had once had a national code, promulgated in 1854. But the code had become caught up in the political cross currents of the period, and in 1867 it was finally repealed as national legislation. In some Mexican states it continued to govern, but in the other states and in the Federal District and ter ritories commercial law reverted to the law of colonial New Spain.