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2. El arbitrio judicial en el antiguo régimen. España e Indicas, siglos XVI-XVIII
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Sánchez-Arcilla Bernal, José (coord.) and Sánchez-Arcilla Bernal, José (coord.)
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- Criminal procedure--Spain--History, Justice, Administration of--Latin America--History, Justice, Administration of--Spain--History, Judicial power--Spain--Colonies, Judicial power--Spain--History, Criminal procedure--Spain--Colonies
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Hoy en día es un lugar común, generalmente aceptado sin crítica, que la justicia penal de la época moderna en Castilla e Indias era un compendio de todos los males posibles: venalidad, corrupción, lentitud, ineficacia y un largo etcétera de desgraciados calificativos, dignos de los mejores propagandistas de la Leyenda Negra. Hay que reconocer que la literatura del Siglo de Oro, por ejemplo, en autores como Quevedo, favoreció una imagen de la justicia del momento muy poco halagüeña; sin embargo, el investigador comprometido con la verdad histórica no puede dejarse llevar sólo por una visión tan parcial, por otra parte, presente en cualquier momento de nuestro pasado e, incluso, en la actualidad. Contemporáneamente, la conocida obra del tristemente desaparecido profesor Tomás y Valiente (El Derecho Penal de la Monarquía Absoluta. Siglos XVI-XVIII) ha dado lugar a una legión de seguidores, discípulos o no, que han pergeñado una visión de la justicia moderna acorde con el mencionado tópico de tribunales penales parciales y corruptos, inmersos en una insoportable arbitrariedad. La intención de los trabajos recogidos en el presente libro, realizados gracias a la concesión de una ayuda a la investigación del MICINN, es poner de relieve cómo el estudio de la literatura jurídica y, muy especialmente, de los numerosos procesos penales conservados nos lleva a una visión de la administración de justicia moderna situada en las antípodas de la concepción vulgar hasta ahora mantenida por la mayoría de los autores. Arbitrio judicial no significa, en absoluto, arbitrariedad, sino adaptación y adecuación de la ley penal a la época y lugar de aplicación, todo ello realizado con consentimiento regio; esto suponía la moderación de las duras leyes, cuyo principal beneficiario era el reo y, por ende, la sociedad, que veía como cercana la actuación de los tribunales de justicia, así como la misericordia con que el Rey se conducía, como administrador último de la misma; todo ello sin que faltasen, ayer como hoy, casos de fallos injustos o parciales, que, sin, embargo, podían y solían ser corregidos en apelación.
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- 2012
3. Latin American Law : A History of Private Law and Institutions in Spanish America
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M. C. Mirow and M. C. Mirow
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- Civil law--Latin America--History, Justice, Administration of--Latin America--History
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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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- 2004
4. Crime and Punishment in Latin America : Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times
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Ricardo D. Salvatore, Carlos Aguirre, Gilbert M. Joseph, Ricardo D. Salvatore, Carlos Aguirre, and Gilbert M. Joseph
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- Crime--Latin America--History, Justice, Administration of--Latin America--History, Punishment--Latin America--History
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Crowning a decade of innovative efforts in the historical study of law and legal phenomena in the region, Crime and Punishment in Latin America offers a collection of essays that deal with the multiple aspects of the relationship between ordinary people and the law. Building on a variety of methodological and theoretical trends—cultural history, subaltern studies, new political history, and others—the contributors share the conviction that law and legal phenomena are crucial elements in the formation and functioning of modern Latin American societies and, as such, need to be brought to the forefront of scholarly debates about the region's past and present.While disassociating law from a strictly legalist approach, the volume showcases a number of highly original studies on topics such as the role of law in processes of state formation and social and political conflict, the resonance between legal and cultural phenomena, and the contested nature of law-enforcing discourses and practices. Treating law as an ambiguous and malleable arena of struggle, the contributors to this volume—scholars from North and Latin America who represent the new wave in legal history that has emerged in recent years-- demonstrate that law not only produces and reformulates culture, but also shapes and is shaped by larger processes of political, social, economic, and cultural change. In addition, they offer valuable insights about the ways in which legal systems and cultures in Latin America compare to those in England, Western Europe, and the United States.This volume will appeal to scholars in Latin American studies and to those interested in the social, cultural, and comparative history of law and legal phenomena.Contributors. Carlos Aguirre, Dain Borges, Lila Caimari, Arlene J. Díaz, Luis A. Gonzalez, Donna J. Guy, Douglas Hay, Gilbert M. Joseph, Juan Manuel Palacio, Diana Paton, Pablo Piccato, Cristina Rivera Garza, Kristin Ruggiero, Ricardo D. Salvatore, Charles F. Walker
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- 2001
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