Magistrados Régios na Comarca do Grão-Pará: os mandos, as práticas e as carreiras dos ouvidores gerais (1750-1773)

Abstract

The District General Ombudsman's Offices were part of the Portuguese administrative bureaucracy in the colonies, having the function of second instance to the decisions of local judges and inquiring into the daily life of the villages. Being the head of the Ombudsman's Office, the General Ombudsman is responsible for supervising the chamber and inquiring people about complaints during the General Devastations on Correctional Trips. This strategic royal agent was a graduate in Law (laws or canons) at the University of Coimbra, a very specific social group that followed paths specific to magistrates. The king's magistrates working in the General Ombudsman's Office of Pará between 1751 and 1773 are the targets of investigation, agents in charge of the symbolic role of the monarch: to do justice. The King's Justice was involved in the application of Portuguese laws and orders, but it was an adaptive execution that balanced customs, land use and metropolitan projects. The exercises of the ombudsmen of Pará were objects of investigation, amid local circumstances and royal orders, the ombudsman judges traced the paths of their careers in the royal service.