Corruption in the administration of justice in colonial Mexico : a special case /
Manuel Torres Aguilar.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Corruption in the administration of justice (...); legal page; �index; a. the trial of an alcalde mayor in the (...); b. shortcomings and defects of the (...); c. the measures of protection for indigenous (...); d. indigenous litigiousness; e. the intervention of the audiencia; f. the challenge as a means of delaying (...); g. the failure to observe the precautionary (...); h. other stalling tactics; i. a disloyal subordinate; j. the acceptance of a inconsistent challenge (...); k. "turning the court of justice into a (...); l. the alcalde mayor's interrogation period. M. the trial's final stage new procedural (...); n. the defendant's death and his civil (...); legislation and administrative orders; glossary of spanish terms; bibliography; a) the general shortcomings of the judicial (...); b) the meagre salaries of officials of (...); c) procedural arbitrariness of the alcalde (...); d) abuses in the use of prison: the punitive (...); a) the protective judicial bodies; b) the audiencia and the lower officials; a) the adoption of the first precautionary (...); b) first arrest, first procedural measures; a) the demand for justification of the (...). B) the apparent urgency of the accused (...)a) the beginning of an extensive (...); b) the account of each accusation: replies, (...); c) a bad example to his subordinates. (...); d) ... having a duty to proceed with (...); e) physical and verbal mistreatment. response (...); f) the meagre salaries of officials and (...); g) the use of cruel measures of constraint (...); h) "the indians of xochimilco are devious (...); i) the alcalde mayor and the widespread (...); j) four hundred and forty-seven victims, (...); k) " ... prison was not invented for (...). L) imposing compulsory duties on nativesm) irregularities in the collection of (...); n) imposition of other arbitrary financial (...); o) the defence's justification for the (...); p) "cheap" lawsuits: the accusatory process (...); a) request for bail; b) eight days' concession: several months (...); c) the dispute over the existence of a (...); d) issues relating to the presentation (...).