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Excerpt from Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California, Vol. 1
It is believed that judges of First Instance were never appointed and never held ofiice in California under the Mexican r�gime, but that Alcaldes possessed the powers and jurisdiction of judges of First Instance. The Alcaldes, before the annexation of the country, it is believed, certainly afterwards, to a great extent, both made and enforced the law; or, at least, they paid but little regard either to American or Mexican law further than suited their Own convenience, and conduced to their own profit. The supreme court was called upon to pass upon but few cases on appeal from Alcaldes' courts, but on many from courts of First Instance. The judges of these courts, appointed by General Riley, then military governor of California, being common law lawyers and not acquainted with Mexican Or Spanish law, further than they could gather it from a small pamphlet translated and published by order of General Riley, conducted their proceedings, for the most part. According to the Common Law, or the statutory regulations of the several states from which they respectively came, and their decisions were generally based upon Common Law grounds.
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