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The Iglesias law or Ley Iglesias issued on 11 April 1857, is named after Liberal politician José María Iglesias and is one of the Reform laws of the Liberal reform in Mexico. Its aim was to regulate the cost of ecclesiastical fees for Catholic sacraments. [ 1 ]
On 23 November 1855, the Ley Juárez , named after the Minister of Justice Benito Juárez, ... Iglesias law or Rights Act and parochial perquisites: ...
José María Juan Nepomuceno Crisóforo Iglesias Inzáurraga (5 January 1823 – 17 December 1891) [1] was a Mexican lawyer, professor, journalist and liberal politician. He is known as author of the Iglesias law , an anticlerical law regulating ecclesiastical fees and aimed at preventing the impoverishment of the Mexican peasantry.
The author of the Lerdo Law, Miguel Lerdo de Tejada. The Lerdo Law (Spanish: Ley Lerdo) was the common name for the Confiscation of Law and Urban Ruins of the Civil and Religious Corporations of Mexico, part of La Reforma. It targeted not only property owned by the Catholic Church, but also properties held in common by indigenous communities ...
The Reform War, or War of Reform (Spanish: Guerra de Reforma), also known as the Three Years' War (Spanish: Guerra de los Tres Años), and the Mexican Civil War, [2] was a complex civil conflict in Mexico fought between Mexican liberals and conservatives with regional variations over the promulgation of Constitution of 1857.
These laws were explicitly anticlerical. The Juárez Law abolished special courts for groups such as the military and the clergy. The Lerdo Law sought to replace corporate ownership of land with individual ownership of land, and it confiscated Church lands. The Iglesias Law sought to control the costs of Church administered sacraments. [38]
Name Took office Left office Notes Higinio Uriarte: 27 February 1871 9 March 1871 [1]Juan Antonio Jara: 9 March 1871 11 March 1871 [2]Higinio Uriarte / Antonio Taboada: 16 March 1871
The Ley de la Mordaza (a gag law) passed the legislature on May 21, 1948, and was signed into law on June 10, 1948, by the U.S.-appointed governor of Puerto Rico, Jesús T. Piñero. It closely resembled the anti-communist Smith Act passed in the United States, and was perceived as an effort to suppress opposition to the PPD and the independence ...