Hamilton's Mexican Law [1882]

<p class=ql-align-justify>A man of many talents Hamilton [1850-1906] was a lawyer writer businessman and minister. He spent most of his career as an attorney in California first in Merced later in San Francisco. Active in Democratic state politics he was a leading supporter of California's 1879 constitution and an unsuccessful candidate for the state senate. He is remembered today for his poem <em>Ishtar and Izdubar</em> a retelling of the <em>Epic of Gilgamesh</em> and his numerous guidebooks to Mexico for American businessmen. <em>Hamilton's Mexican Law</em> was the most important of these. Published in San Francisco and London in 1882 it was a standard work into the early 1900s.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Hamilton gathered many scattered Spanish and Mexican measures as yet uncodified and incorporat[ed] them in his work in an orderly fashion. He went beyond merely commercial matters and included related measures of the Constitution and procedural laws affecting the public in this area.</p><p class=ql-align-right> </p><p class=ql-align-right>Clagett and Valderrama</p><p class=ql-align-right><em>A Revised Legal Guide to the Law & Legal Literature of Mexico</em> 138</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>xiii 327 XII pp.</p>