With the power of dictating the justice: requirements, crafts and complaints about the magistrates actions in Rio de Janeiro s society of 18th century

• Grant number: 15/25844-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2016
• End date: June 30, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Andrea Slemian
• Grantee: Marina Passos Tufolo
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research aims to discuss the behaviors and the conflicts involving judges in the colonial society in Rio de Janeiro, in view of the conceptions of their roles as public people in the exercise of their function as magistrates. The documents to be analyzed - letters, opinions, requirements, decrees, crafts, notifications, extracts, dispatches and enquiries - belongs to the Ultramarine Archive and were disponibilized by the Rescue Project, they focus in the positions of ombudsman, outside and internal judges since the installation of the Rio de Janeiro's Relation in the 18th century. Based on this documentation, it intends to build a typology about the problems involving the positions, focusing also in the ways of control and disciplining used by these authorities within existing standards in The Old Regime society. (AU)