Ganancial

Spanish law

A term which in Spanish signifies nearly the same as acquets. Bienes gananctales are thus defined: ‘ Aquellos que el marido y la muger 6 cualquiera de los dos adquieren 6 aumentan durante el] matrimonio por compra u otro contrato, 6 mediante su trabajo é industria, como tambien los frutos de los bienos proprios que cada uno elevo al matrimonio, et de los que subsistiendo este adquieran sae si por cualquier titulo.”

1 ebr.

Nov. lib.

1, tit. 2, c. 8, 8.

I. This is a species of community; the property of which it is formed belongs in common to the two eonsorts, and, on the dissolution of the marriage is divisible between them in equal shares. It is confined to their future acquisition durante el mairtmonio, and the fructus or rents and profits of their other property.

1 Burge on Confl. of Laws, 418, 419.