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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (1): 163–164.
Published: 01 February 1982
...Roderick J. Barman Judge and Jury in Imperial Brazil, 1808-1871: Social Control and Political Stability in the New State . By Flory Thomas . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1981 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xiii, 268. Cloth . $19.95 . Copyright 1982 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (1): 31–59.
Published: 01 February 2022
.... That is how an alleged page of the aristocracy found himself awaiting the captain general to judge his freedom and loyalty. In form, procedure, and outcome, the legal inquest of Gonzales is similar to other case files in Venezuela from the late Bourbon period. Analyzing it as such would offer a compelling...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (3): 514–516.
Published: 01 August 1974
...H. B. Johnson, Jr. Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil: The High Court of Bahia and Its Judges, 1609-1751 . By Schwartz Stuart B. . Berkeley , 1973 . University of California Press . Maps. Tables. Illustrations. Figures. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxvii , 438...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 517–548.
Published: 01 August 2016
.... Through analysis of bilingual missionary texts and a unique corpus of Zapotec-language criminal records, this article highlights the role of indigenous judges as translators and innovators of legal procedure, notarial form, and criminal discourse. As they prosecuted crimes in Indian tribunals while...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (4): 591–625.
Published: 01 November 2010
... public venues in which black men were judged as members of a free society. Some musicians played samba and a number used malandragem, the lifestyle and ethos of flashy, masculine, malandro hustler figures, to cater to audience desires and also to distinguish themselves from caricatures of sickly, weak...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (2): 195–228.
Published: 01 May 2015
... communities. What exactly that role was is undocumented in Spanish-language archival materials. By examining recent literature on the Iberian qadi , or judge of the Islamic community under Christian rule, this study argues that the cacique, like the qadi, maintained his or her local authority and jurisdiction...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (1): 1–37.
Published: 01 February 2016
... empire, the historical record suggests otherwise. Beneficio allowed social newcomers to buy their way into the judiciary. Traditional elites thought that these newcomers were innately corrupt and that making them judges violated distributive justice, or the fair awarding of entitlements by traditional...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (2): 229–267.
Published: 01 May 2015
... affairs in court suggests that much was at stake in female dalliances. Plaintiffs' pardons and judges' reluctance to rule demonstrate women's crucial contributions to households via income and labor. Since men's infidelity threatened their families' daily survival, women who initiated adultery litigation...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (1): 5–40.
Published: 01 February 2008
... they therefore investigated and codified (creating much invented tradition in the process). This paper explores that link in sixteenth-century Spanish Peru, where, to a remarkable extent, recently conquered Andean people took their disputes to colonial courts. Spanish judges were supposed to decide intra-Andean...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 455–488.
Published: 01 August 2010
... concept is a key to a better understanding of the history of Spanish America during the years that followed the crisis of the monarchy—a long period of instability judged traditionally as an age of anarchy and void of any political norms. On the contrary, the new sovereign, though fragile, governments...
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Published: 01 November 1975
’ professions, but until 1881 it is consistent. If anything, the failure to include the professions of titled nobility slightly underrepresents the true number of professional judges in some years.
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (4): 664–692.
Published: 01 November 1975
...’ professions, but until 1881 it is consistent. If anything, the failure to include the professions of titled nobility slightly underrepresents the true number of professional judges in some years. ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 February 1972
... by the beginning of the eighteenth century. 11 By 1777, creoles held seven of the eight civil judgeships of the Lima tribunal, and three of the four criminal judgeships. More than this, five of the civil judges were natives of Lima itself, the others being from Chile and Panama. Only one peninsular served...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (3): 395–415.
Published: 01 August 1972
...Mark A. Burkholder Even though the Spaniards were in the majority, however, six limeños remained among the judges in 1779: Urquizu, José de Tagle, Querejazu, Mansilla, the Marquis of Corpa, and Santiago Concha. Each of these men had purchased his initial appointment to an audiencia between...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (4): 695–701.
Published: 01 November 1977
..., consist of well-indexed books containing a page for each judge on which was entered details of his successive appointments. In 1973 this archive had not yet been organized subsequent to its transfer from Rio de Janeiro and we were unable to locate the books for the later Empire. 2 The series IJ 4...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (1): 95–126.
Published: 01 February 2022
... whatsoever foreigners' entry into the Argentine territory.” 2 Despite these provisions, the judge in Gutierrez's case, Lucas López Cabanillas, summarily rejected his petition, refusing to pursue the case or even call the property owner for questioning. The verdict, while never mentioning nationality...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (4): 702–706.
Published: 01 November 1977
... on p. 676. As for the table, I noted that there were more judges in the Chamber than the source indicates. The source is erratic with regard to all professions, but relatively consistent in identifying the self-conscious career judges. After mid-century the number of titled deputies decreases...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 489–522.
Published: 01 August 2010
... for determining a person’s credibility or guilt. The testimony of Cipriana’s six witnesses, therefore, placed Mendo in a precarious situation. In what probably surprised both parties, however, the judge saw the case in a different light; he considered the evidence against the defendant so weak as not to merit...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (1): 150–151.
Published: 01 February 1999
... confirm or challenge Mocho’s analysis of the New Mexican legal system. Comparison would shed light on several major points: the number of homicides per capita, the administration of the death penalty, the educational and social levels of judges, the relative importance of community values and tradition...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 415–419.
Published: 01 August 2016
... a judge to declare him a man. As evidence, Aguilera also noted that he dressed as a man and performed men's work. Medical authorities determined that Aguilera could not perform the sexual functions of either a man or a woman and thus that he should be declared a “true Androgyne.” The judge ordered...
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