Philippine Legal Development under the American Rule

This work is intended to show the historical development of law in the Philippines during the American occupation as the two legal systems, civil and Anglo-American, were blended, and incidentally to show the profound influence of the latter on the former mainly by legislation. To sufficiently portray this process, it has been found necessary to give a preliminary survey of the conditions in the Islands immediately preceding the arrival of the Americans. The first portion of this treatise has therefore been devoted to a brief description of the conditions in the Archipelago while under the Spanish sway.