Author: Borah, Woodrow
Title: Justice by Insurance : The General Indian Court of Colonial Mexico & the Legal AIdes of the Half-Real
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (1983). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xxi,479 pp. Textual map & tables. Some light page-edge soil, in a torn dustwrapper, VG. dustwrapp ¶ Contents: Introduction; Castilian Antecedents & Experience to 1521; The Experience of New Spain, 1519 - 1585; Establishment of the General Indian Court, 1585 - 1607; The Court: Jurisdiction & Nature of Business - A Sampler 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 & Exempt Jurisdictions; The Coming of the New; Appendix: Papers Handled by the Solicitadores of the Juzgado General de Indios, 1784.

Keywords: Juzgado General de Indios, Colonial Law, Mexico, Spanial colonialism, New Spain, Legal history, Indians, Native Americans,