EXAMPLES
OF LEGAL TERMS TAKEN FROM THE DICTIONARY:
Administrative
Divorce
(Divorcio
Administrativo)
An
administrative divorce by mutual consent
takes
place before a judge of the Civil Registry
instead
of a Family Law Court. The spouses must:
1)
be of a legal age; 2) have no children; 3) have
liquidated
the Sociedad Conyugal by mutual
agreement;
and 4) have been married for at least
one
year. The procedure is simple, inexpensive,
and
takes less than a month (Art. 227, Federal
Civil
Code).
Letter
Rogatory
(Carta
Rogatoria Internacional)
According
to the Federal Code of Civil Procedure (FCCP),
letters rogatory are "the official written communications
containing a petition to carry out
those procedural acts which are necessary in a
given case. Said communications shall contain the
necessary information, as well as the certified copies,
notifications, copies of the complaint and
any
other pertinent annexes, as may be necessary." A
letter rogatory may be transmitted by any of these
four avenues: 1) directly by the interested parties;
2) through judicial channels; 3) by consular or
diplomatic agents, which is the preferred method (SRE);
and 4) by the competent authority of the State
of origin or of the State of destination (SRE), as
the case may be (Art. 551, FCCP). Letters
rogatory
written in languages other than Spanish must
be duly translated into Spanish by a certified translator
(Arts. 550-553, FCCP).
Investors
(Inversionistas)
Pursuant
to Mexico's General Population Act (GPA), mmigrant Investors
are capital investors who place their apital in commerce, industry,
or other services in Mexico. These immigrants must invest pursuant
to the applicable domestic laws and their activities must be approved
by Gobernación, who monitors that the investment
activities truly enhance Mexico's economic and social development.
During their residency in Mexico, foreign investors must maintain
the minimum amount of investment determined by the Regulations,
consisting in the equivalent of forty thousand times the equivalent
of the general daily salary in force in the Federal District (Mexico
City). This minimum amount corresponds to $200,000 dollars, approximately
(Art. 48 II, GPA; and 102 Regs.)
Personal
Injury Cases
(Daños
Personales)
With
regard to personal injury cases, known in Mexico as extra-contractual
liability cases, in principle, the State law controls vis à
vis Federal law. State law is to be found in the applicable
provisions of the Civil Code of the State where the tortious act
occurred. However, because the civil code of the overwhelming majority
of the 31 States virtually reproduce verbatim the text
of Mexico's Federal Civil Code, the differences between Federal
law and State law tend to be minor depending upon the State in question
(Arts. 1910-1915, FCC).
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