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... against Mexico by the United States would diminish the amount of aid available to the allies in Europe. The United States government was keeping a close watch on all Huertista activities and attempting to prepare for any move which he might make. On May 13 Assistant Attorney General Charles Warren...

... George W. Norris of Nebraska.15 The Department of Justice also took up the cause and began an investigation by appointing William T. Chantland, special assistant to the attorney general, to inquire into the nature of the valorization operations in the United States. On September 6, 1911, the special...

..., but on an alleged deathbed declaration. As plaintiffs, Juan and Clara were under a burden to prove their cause. Testimony from credible witnesses, argued attorney Galbes, established that Pedro de Soto López had publicly expressed his intent to free Juan and Clara. Cabalza responded that this testimony...

... letters between 1906 and 1909. 10 Other regional authorities included federal attorneys and marshals, local sheriffs and police, city detectives, customs and immigration officials, territorial and state police (such as the Arizona and Texas Rangers), and private citizens (for example, Colonel William...

... of this system results in some problems of inconsistency in the guide. Some powers of attorney, for example, are referenced by the name of the grantor, while others can be found under the grantee. Powers of attorney are cited according to the name of the contracting parties, but marriage applications are listed...

... by genealogist Juan José Falla, these volumes are a useful guide to the riches of Guatemala’s notarial archives for the period from roughly the mid–sixteenth to the mid–seventeenth century. Himself an attorney and notary, Falla has abstracted a large number of notarial acts, or escrituras , of all kinds, sworn...

... . Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Attorney Malcolm Ebright and New Mexico state historian Rick Hendricks have collaborated to produce a detailed history of five Indian pueblos, including Pojoaque, Nambé, Tesuque, and Isleta, located in New Mexico, and Ysleta del Sur, located in Texas...

... is careful not to suggest that church assistants “spoke for themselves” in these documents. Instead, he points out different “mediating filters” who, like official defenders of the crown ( protectores ), notaries, attorneys, solicitors, and other literate agents, often contributed to the final form of legal...

... promised that his regime would protect and respect human rights “like never before” and that there would be “no pious oblivion for those who committed crimes” (pp. 55–56). Eleven months later, Fox appointed the special prosecutor's office—as a dependency of the attorney general's office...

... of land, sold enslaved people, and awarded power of attorney to trusted associates. The Capital of Free Women offers an important regional counterpoint and English-language complement to María Elisa Velázquez Gutiérrez's seminal Mujeres de origen africano en la capital novohispana, siglos XVII y XVIII...

..., Attorney General Ezequiel Padilla, who professed the revolution's Christian conviction most forcefully during the trial, was not involved with any spiritual alternatives to Catholicism, including the short-lived Mexican Catholic Apostolic Church or Protestantism. 8 More pointedly, the claim...

... enduring legacies happened in his personal life. Safford did not hesitate to slow down his rapid ascent when his beloved Joan decided to go to law school, becoming a prominent attorney in the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois and then the attaché for the US Department of Justice...

...S.M.D. Paul Roca, a Phoenix attorney and history aficionado who died in 1979, spent a good part of his last twenty years traveling the paths of colonial Jesuit missionaries in Sonora and Chihuahua. This book describes the surviving Jesuit mission churches of the Tarahumara area which the author...

...: “In 1953, he [Halperin] left the United States after the United States Attorney General accused him of belonging to the Communist Party and of passing secrets to Soviet agents. In Moscow . . ..” A reader could infer that I made a hasty departure for Moscow, presumably with the police in hot pursuit...

.... 28 Consequently, owners included influential attorneys, clerics, the Indian governments of Santiago Tlatelolco and San Juan, entrepreneurs such as the Conde de Regla, and even Oidor Francisco Leandro de Viana. The proprietors earned profits from the pulquerías in two ways. The majority merely...

... that asserted that many attorneys were conversos, which created a controversy that raged on and gave historians a better social profile on this group than on other professionals. A detailed look at the Chancillería of Valladolid, the only appellate court with complete records, provides the bulk of the study’s...

... to the reformism of the Bourbon regime. There is also a useful bibliography (with attendant misspellings). Once these obstacles are overcome, the book emerges as an acceptable and thoroughly straightforward summary of recent historical work on the Council of Castile and, in particular, its attorneys general...

... they obtained an alvará allowing Marcos de Oliveira to act as their attorney ( procurador ) in Goa, despite legal impediments because Oliveira was escrwão de agravos there. 34 At some point in his career, Gaspar Malheiro was knighted and assumed the title of Fidalgo da Casa Real . By the time he...

... attorney, all of which came close to failure because of overambitiousness and goals too highly set. Burkholder seeks to connect personal circumstances and enterprises of Baquíjano with general political developments and to contrast the personal strategy with the particular legal norms and political...

... the necessary spark. From 1766 on, a vacuum in the colonial leadership and doubts about the validity of the cession exacerbated tensions within the colony. Amid this confusion, the French Superior Council reigned supreme, ostensibly headed by Foucault but actually governed by the attorney general, Nicolas...