Title: Lerdo law - Wikipedia
Headings: Lerdo law
Lerdo law
Contents
Background
Excluded properties
Fiscal consolidation
Impact on native communities
References
Further reading
External links

Content: Its objectives were to create a rural middle class, promote development, improve public finances of the state, and revive the economy by eliminating restrictions on freedom of movement, the last of which was considered by Comonfort as one of the worst obstacles to Mexican prosperity. The author of the Lerdo Law, Miguel Lerdo de Tejada. The law provided for the confiscation of the lands held by the Catholic Church and civil corporations (the indigenous communities that held property as a corporation. Properties were to be sold to private individuals, which was expected to stimulate the real estate market and to generate government revenue by a sales tax . However, the poor lacked the funds to buy the property, which meant that most purchasers were large landowners or foreign investors, which further concentrated land ownership. Religious groups and their civil corporations were prohibited from purchasing land sold under law unless for strictly-religious purposes. It was one of the Reform Laws, which sought to establish the separation of church and state, the abolition of ecclesiastical privileges ( fueros ); and the secularization of registration of births, deaths, and marriages, which gave rise to the Civil Registry . Contents
1 Background
2 Excluded properties
3 Fiscal consolidation
4 Impact on native communities
5 References
6 Further reading
7 External links
Background
Nineteenth-century Mexican liberals were not the first to attack the Catholic Church 's economic power. The Bourbon monarchy identified the Church's real estate holdings as a problem since they were permanently removed for the real estate market and considered unproductive, and they also granted to the Church considerable economic power.