Book excerpt: Excerpt from Community Property Laws: With Translations of the Commentaries Thereon of Matienzo, Azevedo and Guttierez All debts contracted by husband and wife, being com mon, moreover let them pay as one and if before union in marriage either of them contracted a debt, let that one pay it and the other shall not be held to pay it from his estate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.