Q: I JUST DID...A RESPONSE IS WELCOMED , IF NO RESPONSE THEN SO BE IT...
In Journal of Civil LAW Studies-Translations Preface to the LAWS of the SIETE PARTIDAS WHICH are STILL in FORCE in the STATES,? Etc...In 1769 an the SETTLING OF ALTA CALIFORNIA and SPANISH INSTITUTIONS,PRESIDIOS ('THE ROYAL FORT,SAN DIEGO'),MISSIONS ( Ecclesiastical Laws)And PUEBLOS- LOS ANGELES- 1781, (' THE SIETE PARTIDAS' And the SPANISH FUEROS Are STILL INEFFECT And Have NEVER BEEN ALTERED Or REPEALED..See City of LOS ANGELES v. City of SAN FERNANDO.....
A: I’m not going to take the time for the historical research, but IIRC, California was surrendered to the US by Act of War from Spain at the end of the Spanish-American War. Nothing prior to the conquest counts at International Law unless the victor affirmatively adopts it. Often, the victor adopts prior common law, and even prior debt, as happened in the Revolutionary War. But, prior law does not survive silence.
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