Notes on the institutional organization of the Portuguese Empire. The European Ancien Régime and municipal councils
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https://doi.org/10.15175/1984-2503-201911204Keywords:
Portuguese Empire, Law, institutions, Ancien RégimeAbstract
The following article aims to study the political, institutional, and legal organization of the Portuguese Empire, taking the studies of António Manuel Hespanha as its theoretical framework. It aims to analyze the Ancien Régime in Portugal, characterized as it was by the corporate system, the pulverization of powers, and by the moral economy of privileges. It analyzes the application of ius commune – written common law – which consists in the union of Roman, Canon, and customary law, always employed in a subsidiary fashion to local customs. Finally, it concludes by touching on the organization of the spaces of the Portuguese Empire in municipal chambers, taking into account the specific nature of the period’s law and institutions. The inductive method will be used, by means of bibliographic research.
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