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Justice by insurance : the General Indian Court of Colonial Mexico and the legal aides of the half-real / Woodrow Borah.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0520048458
  • ISBN: 9780520048454
  • Physical Description: xviii, 479 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1983.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-467) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Castilian Antecedents and Experience to 1521 -- The Experience of New Spain, l519-1585 -- Establishment of the General Indian Court, 1585-1607 -- The Court: Jurisdiction and Nature of Business -- ASampler of Cases -- The Court: Functionaries, Procedures, and Policies -- The Indian Agents of the Half-Real, Their Rivals, and Their Clients -- The Fund of the Half-Real -- The Special and Exempt Jurisdictions -- The Coming of the New.
Subject:
New Spain. Juzgado General de Indios > History.
New Spain. Juzgado General de Indios.
Indian courts > Mexico > History.
Indians of Mexico > Legal status, laws, etc. > History.
Indian courts.
Indians of Mexico > Legal status, laws, etc.
Mexico.
Genre:
History.
Gerichtshof.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library KGF 2200 .B67 1983 242257 Stacks Available -

Electronic resources

Version of Resource: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.03679

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