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12 estudios de historia novohispana
Carlos Tormo Camallonga, La abogacía en transición: continuidad y
cambios del virreinato al México independiente
In the face of the eminently Roman-canonist legal system of the Old
Regimen, 19th century liberalism imposes a new legal and judicial
order. Along that line, access to the forum, controlled until then by
the Crown, passes to the hands of the new federal government or the
different states of the federation, in a profession with a number of
practitioners which was questioned since the last decades of the 18th
century. The colonial university must adapt to the new times, particularly
through its study plans for Law and Canons; since these
two unified into one college, in which the study of national law,
theoretical and practial, is priority. The latter had only been studied
until then in the internships and academies of jurisprudence.
Key words: Law and Canons, internships and academies of jurisprudence,
Real Acuerdo de la Audiencia de México, law, liberal Revolution
and Independence, 18th and 19th centuries
Gloria Lizania Velasco Mendizábal, Un riojano entre vascos y montañeses:
Manuel Rodríguez Sáenz de Pedroso, primer conde de San Bartolomé
de Xala
Manuel Rodríguez Sáenz was an important Riojan merchant of the
18th century in New Spain. He made commercial investments in
the trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic routes. However, historiography
has considered him for his businisses in maguey cultivation and
pulque commerce, in which he pioneered to turn this almost wild
crop into a farm product between 1732 and 1750. In 1749 the Spanish
Crown recognized him as the new possesor of the title of count of
Saint Bartholomew of Jala. In 1750 he joined a third and fifth of his
possessions in the foundation of a primogeniture which years later
would unleash a fight between himself and some family members
upon changing the succession of its possession. The networks of
power that he established allowed him to have a close relationship
with the viceroy first count of Revillagigedo.
Key words: family networks, merchants, Consulate of merchants of
Mexico City, maguey, pulque plantations, 18th century.