Lawyer justice administration in a space without letters. Litigants, judges and agents of communication faced with the ordinar y justice in the area of Ortigueira in the seventeenth centur y

Abstract

This research starts with the typological analysis of civil lawsuits on state juries in Ortigueira to establish, through a methodology based on the handwriting of the signatures, the criteria of social origins and literacy of judges and arbitrators. How their knowledge affected justice administration is reflected.