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The Lawyers and New Granada's Late Colonial State*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Victor M. Uribe
Victor M. Uribe
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Assistant Professor of History at Florida International University.
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Abstract

This article presents a portrait of New Granada's colonial lawyers. Though it focuses primarily on individuals qualified to practise law before the Audiencia, it deals not just with practising lawyers as such but also with those who, despite being qualified to practise law, ended up choosing other occupations; in particular, joining the bureaucracy. It examines the social characteristics, family strategies, and bureaucratic careers of these professionals to demonstrate how, as chief competitors for state jobs, lawyers complemented their clans' power in important ways. By providing a vital component of the colonial elite's survival kit – bureaucratic power – they increased their families' overall influence, honour, and social status. In doing so, some lawyers came to build true family-bureaucratic networks which proved resistant to the late colonial Bourbon reforms that sought to undo them.

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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , October 1995 , pp. 517 - 549
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36 Archivo Histórico Nacional, Bogotá (hereafter AHN), Notaria 1a. Bogotá, vol. 13; Notaria 2a., vols. 9–11; Notaria 3a., vols. 2, 4–5. In 1787 one resident of Medellín sued another who refused to address him with the honorific don, which implied noble descent. Twinam, Miners, Merchants, p. 119. Litigation of this sort was common during the second half of the century. Uribe, Jaime Jaramillo, ‘Mestizaje y diferenciación social en el Nuevo Reino de Granada en la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII’, Anuario colombiano de historic socialy de la cultura, vol. 2 (1965), pp. 46–8Google Scholar; Alfonso García Valdecasas, El hidalgo y el honor (Madrid, 1948); Patiño, Criminalidad, ley penaly estructura social, pp. 197–247; Garrido, Reclamos y representaciones, pp. 217–26.

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40 AHN, Notaria 1a., fols. 200, 281. It was also customary for lay members of society in pursuit of a bureaucratic appointment to be represented by a lawyer. See ibid., fol. 213; and letters from Miguel Tadeo Gómez to Joaquín Camacho, in Martínez Delgado, Noticia biogrdfica, pp. 288–9.

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51 AHN, Anexo, Instructión Pública, 4: 474. For the role of some of these functionaries in sixteenth-century Peru and Mexico, and in colonial Venezuela see Lockhart, Spanish Peru, chs. 4, 6; and Arenal Fenochio, ‘De abogados y leyes’, pp. 191–3; Tamayo, Nieves Avellan de, Los escribanos de Venezuela (Caracas, 1994)Google Scholar.

52 AHN, Médicos y Abogados, 3: 235, 251. The oldest example found in the Colombian archives is the ‘Guía para dirigir jueces’ written in 1764 by the priest Pedro de Moya. AHN, Ortega Ricaurte, caja 2. More than a century earlier, the Spanish had relied on manuals like the 1618 ‘Práctica de procuradores para seguir pleitos civiles y criminales’, written by Juan Muñóz, which was very likely brought to the New World. Kagan, Lawsuits and Litigants, p. 46.

53 ‘Relatión de los méritos y servicios del doctor Pedro Romero Sarachaga…1777’. Documentos Biblioteca National de Colombia (hereafter DBNC), F. Pineda, 372. On Francisco Gaona de la Bastida, Francisco Sanz de Santamaría, José María García de Toledo, and José Caicedo y Flórez, lawyers whose major activities revolved around landownership and livestock raising, see Uribe, ‘Rebellion of the Mandarins’, appendix A.

54 While in Popayán, Restrepo received from Uribe, who was in Antioquia, mules loaded with merchandise from Castile. Restrepo in turn sent Uribe muleloads of cacao and ponchos made in the southern region of Pasto. The business was quite profitable; in a few years profits reached nearly 150,000 pesos. See Alba, Guillermo Hernández de, Viday escritos del Doctor José F. Restrepo (Bogotá 1935)Google Scholar; Barrientos, Estanislao Gómez, Don Mariano Ospinaj su época, vol. 1 (Medellín, 1913), p. 48Google Scholar; García de la Guardia, Kalendario manual, p. 168; Mejía, Gabriel Arango, Genealogías de Antioquia y Caldas (Medellín, 1973)Google Scholar.

55 In his memoirs he observed, ‘el estudio práctico de las leyes le…puso en aptitud para desempeñar cualquier destino en la carrera de abogado, profesión que pensaba seguir, porque no tenía patrimonio para emprender otro modo de mejorar su fortuna’. Restrepo, Autobiografia, pp. 10–11, emphasis added; Uribe, ‘Rebellion of the Mandarins’, appendix C.

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64 One of them, Nicolás Mesía Caicedo, was oidor in Manila; two more, Joaquín Mosquera y Figueroa and Manuel del Campo y Rivas, in Mexico; another, Luis de Robledo y Alvarez, in Santo Domingo; and three more, Francisco Xavier Moreno y Escandón, Ignacio Tenorio and Andrés José de Iriarte y Rojas, were in Quito, the first two as oidores, the third as fiscal. García de la Guardia, Kalendario manual; Burkholder, Mark and Chandler, D. S., From Impotence to Authority: The Spanish Crown and the American Audiencias, 1687–1808 (Columbia, 1977)Google Scholar; Restrepo, José M., Biografías de los mandatarios y ministros de la Real Audiencia (1671–1819) (Bogoté, 1952)Google Scholar; Arboleda, Diccionario biográfico, p. 426; Peña, José Antonio Torres, Memorias sobre los orígenes de la independencia nacional (Bogotá, 1960)Google Scholar.

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67 In the case of the Administratión de Aguardientes in Cartagena, for instance, it seems that lawyer Eusebio María Canabal paid 10,000 pesos for the job in 1808, and in exchange expected to receive around 6 per cent of the rents collected. Enrique Ricaurte, Ortega, Proceso histórico del 20 de Julio (Bogotá, 1960), p. 12Google Scholar; Galavís, Eustaquio, ‘Relación exacta y circunstanciada de todos los empleos políticos… 1787’, in Rojas, Ulises, Corregidores y justicias mayores de Tunja y su provincia desde la fundación de la ciudad hasta 1817 (Tunja, 1962), pp. 578–88Google Scholar; Archivo Histórico de Tunja, vol. 318, fols. 407–13; Uribe, ‘Rebellion of the Mandarins’, appendix C.

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69 Uribe, ‘Rebellion of the Mandarins’, appendix A.

70 A study of all the procesillos followed in the colegios mayores of New Granada mentions various examples of students whose admission was questioned because of their fathers' economic activity. One of them was the son of a wealthy merchant trading in wax; another the son of a baker; another the son of a platero de oro, or goldsmith. As noted earlier, even medicine and surgery were considered oficios viles until the late eighteenth century. Silva, ‘Escolares y catedráticos’, pp. 163–4. See also ‘Madrid, 14 de julio de 1768. Real orden sobre lo propuesto en cuanto a estatuto de legitimidad y limpieza de sangre para entrar en colegios y graduarse en las universidades y recibirse de abogado’, in Konetzke, Richard (ed.), Colección de documentos para la historia de la formatión social hispanoamericana, vol. 2 (Madrid, 1962), p. 340Google Scholar.

71 AHN, Anexo, Instrucción Pública, 4: 366–441; Uribe, ‘Rebellion of the Mandarins’, appendix C. Some victims of the 1780s exclusions complained about oidor Joaquín Mosquera's capricious and unspecified influence in the decisions. Gorí was denied admission without even having presented proof of his social background.

72 Silva, ‘Escolares y catedráticos’, pp. 145–79.

73 In July 1804, a royal cédula abolished the Colegio de San Bartolomé's privilege of keeping silent as to the reasons for rejecting an applicant. AHN, Anexo, Instructión Publica, 4: 372.

74 Polo confronted opposition from some lawyers and the local cabildo. His case lasted at least ten years; he was finally allowed to retain the law degree he had already been granted. AHN, Colegios, 2: 231–63; Jaramillo Uribe, ‘Mestizaje y diferenciación’, pp. 35, 39–40. In New Spain during the late eighteenth century applicants with ‘strains of black or Indian blood in their families’ were also admitted to law school after some litigation; by the late 1780s, Miguel Gerónimo Cequo y Morales, an Indian from Cholula, was practising law in Puebla as an attorney for prisoners and fellow Indians. See Kicza, John E., ‘The Legal Community of Late Colonial Mexico: Social Composition and Career Patterns’, unpubl. ms., c. 1984, p. 5Google Scholar.

75 See ‘Madrid, 23 de julio de 1765. Real cédula para que no se admita a ningun mulato a grado alguno en la Universidad de Santa Fe de Bogotá’, in Richard Konetzke (ed.), Colección de documentos, vol. 2, p. 331.

76 Cuervo, Colección de documentos, vol. 2, p. 372; AHN, Colegios, 2: 231–63; ‘Aranjuez, 16 de marzo de 1797. Real cédula dispensando a Pedro Antonio de Ayarza la calidad de Pardo’, in Konetzke, Colección de documentos, vol. 2, p. 757.

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78 Uribe, ‘Rebellion of the Mandarins’, appendix A. The only other Spanish colony in America about whose lawyers' social history and background we have some professional information and analysis is Mexico. See Kicza, ‘The Legal Community’, pp. 5–7. Fragmentary evidence and analyses exist for Argentina. See Colombres, Carlos A. Luque, Abogados en Córdoba del Tucumán (Córdoba, 1943)Google Scholar; and Cutolo, Abogados y escribanos. Finally, there are some edited collections of documents concerning Venezuelan lawyers. See Chuecos, Héctor García, Abogados de la colonia (Caracas, 1958)Google Scholar and Los abogados de la colonia (Caracas, 1965). On other regions see also notes 2 and 5.

79 Martínez Recamán, through his father's modest connections, bought his way up to the middling job of asesor of the Bogotá Cajas Reales by the late 1780s. Gamba Valencia rose to high jobs after the revolution. See BNC, F. Pineda, 1066: 127; García de la Guardia, Kalendario manual, p. 172; Arboleda, Diccionario biográfico, p. 173; Angel, Manuel Uribe, ‘Recuerdos de un viaje a Medellín’, BHA, vol. 2, no. 17 (1904)Google Scholar; Gamba, Benjamín Pereira, ‘Miguel Gamba’, BHA, vol. 3, no. 34 (1906), pp. 621–5Google Scholar.

80 The same seems to have been true for Buenos Aires's bureaucrats. Socolow, Bureaucrats of Buenos Aires, pp. 196–9.

81 The cases of Francisco Antonio Moreno y Escandón and Manuel del Campo y Rivas roughly fit this description, except that the latter remained a bachelor his entire life. Others, like Francisco de Tordecillas, had less successful careers. Rojas, Corregidores, p. 597; Vergara y Vergara, Don Antonio de Vergara Azcárate, vol. 1, pp. 131–80. The mechanics of some of the appointment processes are discussed by Burkholder, Politics of a Colonial Career, pp. 30–43.

82 In 1787, at a time when Bourbon policies were, paradoxically, supposedly trying to prevent local society from influencing colonial bureaucracy, Mosquera y Figueroa became the only native Creole appointed oidor to the Bogotá audiencia in the entire eighteenth century, with the exception of Juan Ricaurte, who served as interim oidor for a short period in April 1718. Aragón, Arcesio, ‘Un regente de España, nacido en Popayán, en el Nuevo Reino de Granada’, Revista de Indias, vol. 36 (1949), pp. 307–11Google Scholar; Restrepo, Biografías de los mandatarios, pp. 337–8; Burkholder and Chandler, From Impotence to Authority; Uribe, ‘Rebellion of the Mandarins’, appendix A.

83 See the example of the Creole Flórez clan who, through positions in the cathedral, the fiscal bureaucracy and the audiencia, built a powerful network of power in the early eighteenth century. Colmenares, Germán, ‘Factores de la vida política: el Nuevo Reino de Granada en el siglo XVIII (1730–1740)’, in Manual de historia de Colombia, vol. I (Bogotá, 1982), pp. 395–402Google Scholar.

84 One of his sisters was married to Pedro Romero Sarachaga, escribano de cámara of the local audiencia from 1766 to at least 1777, and a wealthy landowner. Caicedo's brother Fernando was the parish priest of the local cathedral from 1794 to 1802 and later became a high ranking member of the church hierarchy. Another brother, Luis, was a wealthy landowner. Restrepo and Rivas, Genealogias; ‘Relatión de los méritos … Pedro Romero Sarachaga’. DBNC, F. Pineda, 372; also Figure 2 in this article.

85 Francisco Gaona de la Bastida (1755–1799), Caicedo's father-in-law, owned at least two major haciendas, one of which was valued in 1779 at 12,300 patacones, a considerable amount. Pardo Umaña, Haciendas, pp. 164, 215–16; Uribe, ‘Rebellion of the Mandarins’, appendix A.

86 Restrepo and Rivas, Genealogías, p. 165; Sandra Montgomery, ‘The Bourbon Mining Reform in New Granada’, in Fisher et al. (eds.), Reform and Insurrection, pp. 51–3.

87 Caicedo was suspended from the legal profession as a suspect of conspiracy in the mid1790s. See Sarmiento, Germán Pérez (ed.), Causas célebres a los precursores…copias fieles y exactas de los originates que se guardan en el Archivo General de Indias, vol. 1 (Bogotá, 1939), p. 92Google Scholar; Victor M. Uribe, ‘“Kill all the Lawyers”: Lawyers and the Independent Movement in New Granada, 1809–1820’, The Americas (forthcoming).

88 See also the case of the young lawyer José Valdés, who arrived in New Granada in early 1809 with the position of corregidor of the important region of Socorro and was promoted to oidor of Guatemala in less than a decade. Rodríguez Plata, La antigua Provincia, pp. 190–3.

89 Antonio Benito del Casal y Freiria served in Tunja from 1733 to at least 1738. He was also appointed teniente capitan general during these years, and was finally transferred to Maracaibo in 1740 as gobernador y comandante general. Rojas, Corregidores y justicias, p. 507; Restrepo, José M. and Rivas, Raimundo, Genealogías de Santafé de Bogotá (Bogotá, 1928), pp. 225–6Google Scholar; Pinzón, Hermes Tovar, ‘El estado colonial frente al poder local y regional’, Nova Americana, vol. 5 (1982), p. 51Google Scholar.

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101 See Restrepo and Rivas, Genealogías, pp. 161–2; Pardo Umaña, Haciendas de la Sabana; Villamarín, ‘Encomenderos and Indians’, pp. 338–47, 403–6; ‘Documento Histórico’, BHA, vol. 6, no. 61 (1909), pp. 31, 36.

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103 Uribe, ‘Rebellion of the Mandarins’, ch. 2.

104 He married a daughter of Jorge Miguel Lozano de Peralta, a large landholder who held the title Marqués de San Jorge. Plazas, Francisco de P., ‘Los Marqueses de San Jorge’, BHA, vol. 58, no. 678–80 (1971), pp. 261–8Google Scholar; Vergara y Vergara, Don Antonio Vergara Azcárate, vol. 1, p. 139.

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106 Vergara, Relación, p. 242.

107 In 1807 Tadeo, a lawyer, was asesor of Reales Rentas in Honda, a neighbouring town to Bogotá; Isidro was meritorio in the Contaduría General after 1804, and by 1815 was tesorero of the royal mint; Francisco Gregorio was oficial in the Reales Cajas during the early 1810s. Vergara y Vergara, Don Antonio Vergara Azcárate, vol. 2, pp. 13, 17, 40.

108 García de la Guardia, Kalendario manual; Uribe, ‘Rebellion of the Mandarins’, appendix A.

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