Description
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Tables
Preface
Author's Notes
Money
Citations in Footnotes
Abbreviations
CHAPTER I
Introduction
CHAPTER II
Castilian Antecedents and Experience to 1521
CHAPTER III
The Experience of New Spain,1519-1585
CHAPTER IV
Establishment of the General Indian Court, 1585-1607
CHAPTER V
The Court: Jurisdiction and Nature of Business-
A Sampler of Cases
A. The Questions
B. A Selection of Case Abstracts
1. Land and Property Rights
2. Mistreatment and Exactions
by Non-Indians
3· Indian vs. Indian
4· The Proper Ordering of Indian Society
5. Criminal Cases
6. Supervision of the Indian Barrios
and Parcialidades of the Capital
C. Some Answers
CHAPTER VI
The Court: Functionaries, Procedures, and Policies
CHAPTER VII
The Indian Agents of the Half-Real, Their Rivals,
and Their Clients
CHAPTER VIII
The Fund of the Half-Real
CHAPTER IX
The Special and Exempt Jurisdictions
A. The Marquesado del Valle de Oaxaca
B. Yucatan
C. The Audiencia of Guadalajara
CHAPTER X
The Coming of the New
Appendix: Papers Handled by the Solicitadores
of the Juzgado General de Indios, 1784
Glossary
Bibliography
Manuscripts
Publications
Index
Map: Provinces Within the Audiencia
of Mexico, Including Yucatan, I786
