Note XXXI-6 — Chapter XXXI · JUDICIAL AND MILITARY. 1887.
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Trial by jury had been decreed, on the promulgation of the Livingston code in Jan. 1837, under the law of Aug. 27, 1836. It was suspended by decree of March 13, 1838, on the ground of its impracticability in a country so unprepared for it as Guat. then was. Montúfar, Reseña Hist., ii. 289-343; iii. 63-84; Salv., Diario Ofic., Feb. 14, 1875; Pineda de Mont, Nota, in Guat., Recop. Ley., i. 464; Dunlop's Cent. Am., 192; Squier's Trav. Cent. Am., ii. 419, 426.