Judicial Practice in Northern New Spain, 1700-1810
Author : Charles Ross Cutter
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Page : 502 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Judicial process
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Author : Charles Ross Cutter
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Page : 502 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Judicial process
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Author : Charles R. Cutter
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 21,55 MB
Release : 2001-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826327758
Spain's colonial rule rested on a judicial system that resolved conflicts and meted out justice. But just how was this legal order imposed throughout the New World? Re-created here from six hundred civil and criminal cases are the procedural and ethical workings of the law in two of Spain's remote colonies--New Mexico and Texas in the eighteenth century. Professor Cutter challenges the traditional view that the legal system was inherently corrupt and irrelevant to the mass of society, and that local judicial officials were uninformed and inept. Instead he found that even in peripheral areas the lowest-level officials--thealcaldeor town magistrate--had a greater impact on daily life and a keener understanding of the law than previously acknowledged by historians. These local officials exhibited flexibility and sensitivity to frontier conditions, and their rulings generally conformed to community expectations of justice. By examining colonial legal culture, Cutter reveals the attitudes of settlers, their notions of right and wrong, and how they fixed a boundary between proper and improper actions. "A superlative work."--Marc Simmons, author ofSpanish Government in New Mexico
Author : Allan Greer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107160642
Offers a new reading of the history of the colonization of North America and the dispossession of its indigenous peoples.
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Page : 264 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Forests and forestry
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Author : Bianca Premo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,89 MB
Release : 2017-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0190638745
This is a history of the Enlightenment--the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law. But rather than members of a cosmopolitan Republic of Letters, its principal protagonists are non-literate, poor, and enslaved litigants who sued their superiors in the royal courts of Spain's American colonies. Despite growing evidence of the Hispanic world's contributions to Enlightenment science, the writing of history, and statecraft, the region is conventionally believed to have taken an alternate route to modernity. This book grapples with the contradiction between this legacy and eighteenth-century Spanish Americans' active production of concepts fundamental to modern law. The Enlightenment on Trial offers readers new insight into how Spanish imperial subjects created legal documents, fresh interpretations of the intellectual transformations and legal reform policies of the period, and comparative analysis of the volume of civil suits from six regions in Mexico, Peru and Spain. Ordinary litigants in the colonies--far more often than peninsular Spaniards--sued superiors at an accelerating pace in the second half of the eighteenth century. Three types of cases increased even faster than a stunning general rise of civil suits in the colonies: those that slaves, native peasants and women initiated against masters, native leaders and husbands. As they entered court, these litigants advanced a new law-centered culture distinct from the casuistic, justice-oriented legal culture of the early modern period. And they did so at precisely the same time that a few bright minds of Europe enshrined new ideas in print. The conclusion considers why, if this is so, the Spanish empire has remained marginal to the story of the advent of the modern West.
Author : M. C. Mirow
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0292778589
Private law touches every aspect of people's daily lives—landholding, inheritance, private property, marriage and family relations, contracts, employment, and business dealings—and the court records and legal documents produced under private law are a rich source of information for anyone researching social, political, economic, or environmental history. But to utilize these records fully, researchers need a fundamental understanding of how private law and legal institutions functioned in the place and time period under study. This book offers the first comprehensive introduction in either English or Spanish to private law in Spanish Latin America from the colonial period to the present. M. C. Mirow organizes the book into three substantial sections that describe private law and legal institutions in the colonial period, the independence era and nineteenth century, and the twentieth century. Each section begins with an introduction to the nature and function of private law during the period and discusses such topics as legal education and lawyers, legal sources, courts, land, inheritance, commercial law, family law, and personal status. Each section also presents themes of special interest during its respective time period, including slavery, Indian status, codification, land reform, and development and globalization.
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Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Agricultural research managers
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Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : 9782600003117
Author : Jane Landers
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 1999
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780252067532
The first extensive study of the African American community under colonial Spanish rule, Black Society in Spanish Florida provides a vital counterweight to the better-known dynamics of the Anglo slave South. Jane Landers draws on a wealth of untapped primary sources, opening a new vista on the black experience in America and enriching our understanding of the powerful links between race relations and cultural custom.
Author : Joanne Rappaport
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822351285
Geronimo Stilton's relaxing vacation turns into a crazy treasure hunt in South Dakota, complete with a run-in with a mountain lion and a hot-air balloon ride to Mount Rushmore.