Adequar e não inovar. Implementação da Justiça na Capitania de São José do Rio Negro

Abstract

Nominees for this colonial space, the literati had to learn the limits of its own offices and its functions as articulators of royal power with vassals. And these processes is built the practice of ombudsman positions and general superintendent. Installation of Justice, its main procedures, are the implementation of the Portuguese presence and its signs by the king's judges. The transformation of the Indians vassals d'el Portuguese king and installation of the royal administration, its other administrative and bureaucratic cadres were sets and synchronous efforts. We understand that it is through the daily experience that the norm was rebuilt to be applied in the various villages of the Province of São José do Rio Negro, and are the ombudsmen big stage this activity. Their duties and legal requirements the behaved as responsible for the application and adaptation, lay on between the "traditional" practices and the Ordinances and royal orders was exercising balance between the colonial and the Crown. Harmonize through the resource adequacy was employed by Lourenço Pereira da Costa and António José Pestana and Silva were as general ombudsmen, general stewards of agriculture, trade and manufacturing and real estate providers of São José do Rio Negro, 1760 at 1767 and 1767 at 1773. The district court of São José do Rio Negro was a process in traffic, which was to be implemented by these graduates of the king.