Abstract

MONTOYA GOMEZ, María Victoria. How Should Judges Be? A Reflection Upon Local Magistrates from the City of Antioquia (1750-1809). Sig. his [online]. 2014, vol.16, n.32, pp.86-121. ISSN 1665-4420.

This article studies how the judges should be as central agents of a legal culture under Bourbon Reforms, during the second half of the eighteenth century. The analysis focuses on the local level, considering the experience of a city called Antioquia, located in the Nuevo Reino de Granada viceroyalty. In particular, it takes the experience of local magistrates (called Jueces Pedáneos), who started to be appointed in this region in the 1750s, and who were constantly criticized by authorities such as the governors of the province of Antioquia and ordinary mayors of Antioquia city due to their poor performance in justice matters.

Keywords : Jurisdictionalism; Administration of justice; local magistrates; adultery; concubinage.

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