Maurice Law
The Mauragesetz ( Spanish Ley Maura ) laid the foundation for the local government of the Philippines. It is named after its author, Antonio Maura , who was then the Spanish Minister for Colonial Affairs . It was promulgated on May 19, 1893 and came into force in 1895. The preamble to the law states that the Mauritian law is intended to "... the natives for the future, whenever possible, to secure the land necessary for cultivation in accordance with traditional customs." Article 4, however, provides that "... claims to all agriculturally usable lands that are entitled to approximation under the royal decree ... of 1880, but which have not been asserted within the period for promulgation of the decree ... the Any claim to these lands by those who have applied for an approximation but have not completed it within the above deadline will not be granted to them in any way or at any time " .
Those with open claims to property rights were given a year to obtain evidence. There was no extension of the time limit, and all property claims received after April 17, 1895 were deemed ineffective and null and void.
The Mauritian Law introduced the tribunales , municipales and juntas provinciales , and this foundation created by the Mauritian Law was later adopted, revised and expanded by the American and Philippine Governments as successors to the Spanish Colonial Laws .
development
A proclamation by the former Philippine President Macapagal moved the date of independence from July 4, 1946, the declaration of Philippine independence by the USA, to June 12, 1898, the declaration of independence from the Spanish colonial power by Emilio Aguinaldo's revolutionary army . Nu'ain Bin Abdulhaqq, a functionary of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), deduces from this that the Philippines were reduced by this proclamation to the territorial area of the Maura Law of 1893, which only included Luzon and the Visayaas as "Las Islas Filipinas" . This excludes the independent areas of the Bangsamoro people , which is a justification for the Moros' claim to independence .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Agustín Sánchez Andréz La Élite Política Del Ministerio De Ultramar (1863-1898) Un Estudio Sociología Ministerial , Universidad Morelia, México, 2003 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 236 kB)
- ↑ Note: Antonio Maura was Ultramar Minister from December 11, 1892 to March 12, 1894
- ↑ Peter Brosius, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Charles Zerner: Communities and Conservation: histories and politics of community-based natural resource management , ed. by Rowman Altamira, 2005, ISBN 0759105065 , page 398
- ↑ Nu'ain Bin Abdulhaqq: June 12 and the Bangsamoro Nation , quoted from MoroHerald.com, June 13, 2006, accessed May 13, 2011
