In Juan Rulfo’s novel Pedro Páramo (1955), a surveyor has measured some land, and Fulgor Sedano, the administrator of the estate, says that the measurements were correct. Pedro Páramo wants them done again. “Derrumba los lienzos si es preciso” (Knock down the fences if necessary), he tells Fulgor.
Fulgor asks: “¿Y las leyes?” (And the laws?). Pedro Páramo answers: “¿Cuáles leyes, Fulgor? La ley de ahora en adelante la vamos a hacer nosotros” (What laws, Fulgor? From now on, we will make the law).