ENTRE LA POSESIÓN Y LA ESCRITURA. GESTIÓN JUDICIAL DE REQUISITOS PROPIETARIOS SOBRE LA TIERRA EN EL VALLE DEL CACHAPOAL, CHILE, 1820-1858.

The study problematizes the convergence of two proprietary requirements on land, possession and title deed, in an agricultural valley of Chile during the first half of the 19th century. The residents, in lawsuits for land rights, reinterpreted the legal and performative value of both requirements by managing an instrument that allowed their coexistence: writs of possession. These experiences contribute to the discussions about the social appropriation of the acts of taking possession of the land and regarding the formalization of rights, which conceived these proprietary requirements as exclusive and successive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]