This book is an example of the past colliding with the present as an ultra liberal Colorado Supreme Court chief justice reached back 1,500 years to Spain's land grants and shared (communal) use of property and tried to mix them with the American concept of private property rights. She ruled in several opinions that, under a 160-year-old Mexican land grant (similar to colonial Spanish grants) and a 150-year-old ambiguous document, an initially undefined...