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: 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. During the Bourbon Reforms, the Spanish monarchy sought to undermine the power of the Church, especially the Society of Jesus, and so it expelled the Jesuits, confiscated their highly-productive landed estates, and sold them to private individuals. During the colonial era, the Spanish crown had granted to indigenous communities a certain amount as corporations to ensure that they had sufficient land to maintain their subsistence. After independence in 1821, the ecclesiastical rights to hold real estate were challenged in the 1830s during the vice-presidency of Valentín Gómez Farías, who implemented the secularization of Franciscan missions in California . Excluded properties
The law excluded properties that were used by the Church as a corporation for religious purposes. As stipulated in Article 8 of the law, the properties were exempt from the alienation if they buildings used immediately and directly to the service or the object of the institute's corporations, even if part was leased in them, such as convents, episcopal palaces, municipal schools, hospitals, hospices, markets, and houses of correction charities.