you have the old JOHN MAYNARD SMYTHE who was a Pauper owned and operated by the Municipal United States Government, cast ashore in Puerto Rico and operated under the Spanish Law of the Inquisition
This law is Las Sietes Partidas .. the 7 parts. It is in effect by proclamation in 1758 in those areas purchased by the United States in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase and was brought into line with U.S. laws (common law) in 1820 by the Louisiana State legislature.

Now Anna makes it appear that this is bad law but after the stuff dealing with the Spanish crown and Catholic church is scrubbed out what is left isn't terribly bad. For example, a judge that exceeds his jurisdiction gets to complete the sentence himself. And a defendant is instructed not to answer when charged with a crime against a legal fiction until his prosecutor (persecutor?) presents a proper carte de persona (showing his authority to act in the name of such legal fiction). Then too they make provisions for heirs to demand from municipal authority the remainder from trusts established over 100 years previously by their ancestors. Now this last one bears thinking about.