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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In Spanish law. Property held in community. The property of which it is formed belongs in common to the two consorts, and, on the dissolution of the marriage, is divisible between them in equal shares. It is confined to their future acquisitions durante el matrimonio, and the frutos or rents and profits of the other property.

1 Surge, Confl. Laws, 418, 419; Aso & M. Inst. bk. 1, tit. 7, c. 5, § 1.