Diaz Barreiro, Juan Manuel, fl. 1858-1894.

Diaz Barreiro's Diccionario : (Latin American Law, 1873)

Tarlton's copy of this dictionary is bound into the back of a volume of El Derecho, a weekly journal published by the Academia Mexicana de Jurisprudencia y Legislación, which reviewed legal proceedings and news in Mexico. Diaz Barreiro was a prolific writer who wrote extensively about Mexican law, especially penal law. He had already written his Codigo Penal, and simply decided to place it in dictionary form and republish it.

The work offers straightforward definitions of terms, with a decidedly criminal bent, as would be expected. He discusses the laws surrounding "abortos," "corrupción de menores," "detención," "sedición," and "tormento" among many other subjects in his fairly short dictionary. He definitions nearly always point the reader toward a specific article of the law after the definition is given.

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