La cultura jurídica en el Perú virreinal

• Autor: De la Puente Brunke, José
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2008
• Institución: Universidad Católica San Pablo
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Católica San Pablo
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistas.ucsp.edu.pe:article/437
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.ucsp.edu.pe/index.php/Allpanchis/article/view/437
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Perú virreinal; cultura jurídica; administración de justicia en el Antiguo Régimen; literatura jurídica; arbitrio judicial

This article highlights the peculiarities of the legal culture in Viceroyalty Peru. This was developed in a context in which the fundamental subjects of rights were not individuals but corporations, and in which the social order had a transcendent character, in the sense that both its structure and its organization derived from a universe of divine creation, and therefore the will of men could not intervene in them. In this sense, the attributes that a judge should have are explained, who above all should be a good man, whose personal discretion was decisive to resolve the causes according to the circumstances of each case, and without being subject to the mandate of general laws.