Ganancial property in United States law: the Castilian community of gains as printed in Philadelphia in 1839 and in Texas in 1866

Castilian law treated marriage as a partnership whose gains belong equally to both spouses, with the wife's own property staying hers. American lawyers printed that doctrine in English in 1839, and in 1866 the official digest of Texas law recorded a court holding that the marital-rights law of the state was a continuation of Spanish jurisprudence. The regime gave the wife an ownership share without control, and in Texas it counted enslaved people among the property it divided.