Consolidação da posse na Belém dos oitocentos: análise dos registros paroquiais e legitimações de posse (1854-1891)

Abstract

The objective of this study is to present a study about the consolidation of possessions in the city of Belém during the nineteenth century, with the main objective of consolidating the possessions registered and described in the parish register. Its specific objectives are to carry out a bibliographical survey on colonial Belém and the land regime in the old regime; the bibliographical review on the suspension of the sesmarial system, the historical context of imperial Brazil, and the political upheavals of that period, with emphasis on the edition of the land law and the application of the norm in urban perimeters and rebalances; the analysis of the parish registers of the Parishes of Sant'anna da Campina, Sé and Santíssima Trindade on the areas that currently comprise the urban perimeter of Belém, and the ratifications of possession and transpasses that occurred in the period; the verification of which possessions recorded in the parochial register that were identified later consolidated and by which legal instrument. It establishes as a method the collection, reading and analysis of the registries of Parishes of the Sé, Trindade and Sant'Anna, besides the legitimations and ratifications of possession, besides the transpasses, whose conclusions were extracted based on the historical interpretive method. It justifies this study because of the importance of understanding how ownership was consolidated in Belém in the years 1854 to 1891. It identifies that the main mechanism of consolidation of the possessions was the leasehold regime, which remained present from the colonial period and after the period studied in the present work. It also finds out that although Pará was the province with the highest number of parish registers, in the city of Belém, its reflexes were not great for consolidating possession.