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Spanish term or phrase:
La Mejora(s)
English translation:
La Mejora(s) [italics] > Advantage(s)
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La Mejora
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Mar 24, 2016 16:21: Taña Dalglish changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1668740">Sinead Nicholas's</a> old entry - "La Mejora"" to ""La Mejora in [italics] > Advantages""
Mar 25, 2016 00:13: Taña Dalglish changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/609894">Taña Dalglish's</a> old entry - "La Mejora"" to ""La Mejora [italics] > Advantages""
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La Mejora in [italics] > Advantages
This is the full text of the Spanish Civil Code
https://archive.org/stream/spanishcivilcode00spairich#page/1...
See page starting 6th Section, Article 823. The father or the mother may dispose of one of the two third parts, intended as ....
The Visigoths from the Migration Period to the Seventh ...
https://books.google.com.jm/books?id=4MADmH2eaGIC&printsec=f... (page 233)
Peter Heather - 2003 - History
1, named la mejora in Spanish 4), was the object of an exhaustive study by Jorge de Lacoste in 1913. ... Many years later, Alfonso Otero published an extensive article (1963) in which ... At present, there is a law of mejora in the Spanish Civil Code. ...
4 The law goes by the name of 'mejora'. At present, there is a law of mejora in the Spanish Civil Code. This legislation permits a person to apportion a third of his estate to favour any one or several or all of his right and lawful heirs. Section 823 of the Civil Code provides as follows: "Father or mother may apportion ......".
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https://books.google.com.jm/books?id=dcxMZxO62lgC&pg=PA281&l...
The Civil Law in Spain and Spanish-America: Including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and ...
By Clifford Stevens Walton
Advantages (Mejoras)
Article 823 ....
This portion is called advantage (mejora)
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Thank you so much.
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The Improvement
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i found out that my colleague is right (tana dalglish)
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Explanation:
Leave "La Mejora" in [italics] > Advantages.
This is the full text of the Spanish Civil Code
https://archive.org/stream/spanishcivilcode00spairich#page/1...
See page starting 6th Section, Article 823.
En varios sitios traducen mejora como "special bequest".