Legal documents from Puno, Peru, 1698-1834

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Title: Legal documents from Puno, Peru, 1698-1834
Abstract: A bound volume of legal documents concerning various civil matters in the province of Puno, Peru. The documents consist primarily of transcriptions of depositions, witness interrogations, petitions on behalf of prisoners, and reports by magistrates. Persons mentioned in several documents as plaintiffs and defendants include: Mariano Bustamante; Manuel Garcia; and Antonio Luna. The majority of the documents carry an official court stamp and an indication of a cost (possibly for transcription services) and many early ones bear the seal of King Carlos III
Description: Documents in Spanish.
Spine title: SOLDRZAN Politica Indiana Aniadidor [?] 2.
Purchased from Sotheby's London sale, Dec 4, 1997.
Provenance: Purchased from Sotheby's on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1998.
Extent: 1 32 cm. v. (ca. 300 p.) ;
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Spanish

Genre: Legal documents
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Peru.
Puno (Peru : Region)
Subject (Name): Bustamente, Mariano.
García, Manuel.
Luna, A. (Antonio)
Subject (Topic): Civil law
Law
Subjects: Bustamente, Mariano
García, Manuel
Luna, A. (Antonio)
Civil law > Peru
Law > Peru
Puno (Peru : Region)

Access: Public
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Citation: Legal Documents from Puno, Peru. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.