Justice by Insurance - The General Indian Court of Colonial Mexico and the Legal Aides of the Half-Real Borah WoodrowPaperback / softback
Justice by Insurance - The General Indian Court of Colonial Mexico and the Legal Aides of the Half-Real Borah WoodrowPaperback / softback As Western Europe expanded its empires in the sixteenth and…
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Justice by Insurance - The General Indian Court of Colonial Mexico and the Legal Aides of the Half-Real Borah WoodrowPaperback / softback
As Western Europe expanded its empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it came to dominate many peoples, especially in America, whose cultures and legal systems differed dramatically from its own. And, in particular, how could legal remedy be provided for groups of lesser political weight? The resulting conflicts of both law and custom posed difficult problems: How could these conflicting laws and customs be adjusted within a common political administration?
In what is today Mexico, the conquering Spaniards had at first attempted to preserve such Indian customs as were deemed not contrary to reason or Christianity. Woodrow Borah vividly depicts one of the more unusual institutions that arose in response to these problems--the General Indian Court of New Spain. However, as interpreted by Spanish judges, so much turned out to be "contrary" to these standards that native