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It takes the average reader 4 hours and 7 minutes to read The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain, 1700-1810 by Charles R. Cutter

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Spain's colonial rule rested on a judicial system that resolved conflicts and meted out justice. But just how was this legal order imposed throughout the New World? Re-created here from six hundred civil and criminal cases are the procedural and ethical workings of the law in two of Spain's remote colonies--New Mexico and Texas in the eighteenth century. Professor Cutter challenges the traditional view that the legal system was inherently corrupt and irrelevant to the mass of society, and that local judicial officials were uninformed and inept. Instead he found that even in peripheral areas the lowest-level officials--thealcaldeor town magistrate--had a greater impact on daily life and a keener understanding of the law than previously acknowledged by historians. These local officials exhibited flexibility and sensitivity to frontier conditions, and their rulings generally conformed to community expectations of justice. By examining colonial legal culture, Cutter reveals the attitudes of settlers, their notions of right and wrong, and how they fixed a boundary between proper and improper actions. "A superlative work."--Marc Simmons, author ofSpanish Government in New Mexico

How long is The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain, 1700-1810?

The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain, 1700-1810 by Charles R. Cutter is 244 pages long, and a total of 61,976 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.

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The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 38 minutes to read The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain, 1700-1810 aloud.

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The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain, 1700-1810 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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