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Roman Law

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Spanish-language course from Universidades Anáhuac in seven modules: sources and institutions, persons and family, civil procedure, property, obligations, contracts, and delicts. Gives a systematic grounding in the private-law categories that civil-law systems still inherit from Rome.

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