La moderación de la pena en el caso de las personae miserabiles en el pensamiento jurídico hispano-americano de los siglos XVI y XVII

  1. Francisco J. Andres Santos
  2. Luis C. Amezua Amezua
Journal:
Revista de historia del derecho

ISSN: 0325-1918 1853-1784

Year of publication: 2013

Issue: 45

Type: Article

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Abstract

This paper concerns the issue of the judicial treatment of the so-called personae miserabiles, namely persons in misfortune (particularly the American Indians), according to the vision of the Spanish legal doctrine of 16th and 17th centuries. One main judicial consequence of the membership to that category was the relieving of the penalties in case of crimes made by such individuals, what gave occasion to different legal problems in practise .

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