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Scope and place. This entry covers §§21-33 of libro III, capítulo XV of Juan de Solórzano Pereira's Política Indiana in the 1736 Madrid impression, running from the foot of the left column of page 306 to the right column of page 307. §§1-9 and §16, the prohibition, and §§10-15 and 17-20, on pledging and embargo of the fruits, are treated in separate entries. §34, which opens the run on transacciones and compromissos, was seen on the page and is outside this scope.
confidence 0.9Política Indiana, libro III, capítulo XV, §§21-33 — the encomienda as marriage property and the renunciation in favour of a child: at §21 that although the law sometimes permits things prohibited from alienation to be alienated 'por causa de dote'; at §22 that in feuds it is settled that regularly they cannot be given in dowry or alienated for that cause 'sin particular consentimiento del Señor de el Feudo: porque la dacion in dotem, se tiene por venta', refuting Anguísola, and that 'si aun no es licito al Feudatario, enagenar el Feudo por sus propias necessidades; menos se le permitirá por la de el dote, y remedio de sus hijas, aunque esta causa sea en sí tan privilegiada'; at §23 that this does not prevent that 'si alguna muger tiene en su cabeza algun Feudo, ò Encomienda, pueda, tratando de casarse, darla en dote consigo, sin estimarla, para sustentar las cargas de el matrimonio, como sucede, en los que gozan, y posseen Mayorazgos: porque entonces no se muda la condicion, ò persona del Feudo, ò de la Encomienda; sino solo se le dan al marido sus frutos, y rentas, que es su comodidad para el sustento de las dichas cargas'; at §24 that likewise a father with a daughter to marry who is immediate successor in the encomienda may make 'dexacion de ella para este efecto, y à titulo de dote, ò aumento de él', as some Cédulas Reales expressly advise, 'Y aun ay otra del año 1540, en que el señor Emperador Carlos V. aprueba cierto traspasso de una Encomienda, que un Padre havia hecho en un hijo suyo, para poderle casar mejor, y mas noblemente'; at §25 that such approvals seem not even to have been necessary where the daughter is immediate successor, on Rolando in terms of feuds; at §26 the question the author says he saw litigated, whether a father who renounced in favour of a daughter and afterwards had a son, 'el qual como es llano, precede à las hijas en la succession de las Encomiendas', has the transfer revoked, 'Pues parece, que el padre no pudo perjudicar al derecho del hijo, llamado por la providencia, y disposicion de la ley de las Encomiendas'; at §27 that he inclines much to think it must be revoked, on a law of the Emperor Constantine illustrated by Tiraqueau; at §28 that where the act was not perfected it may and must be retracted 'sobreviniendo nueva, y legitima causa'; at §29 Pedro Surdo on persons admitted to a thing and displaced when another appears with better right; at §30 a Glossa of the Feuds holding that 'el hijo varon concebido, y nacido despues de averse deferido la succession del Feudo, excluye à la hembra, que ya se hallaba admitida, è introducida en ella', applied by Molina's Adicionador to the mayorazgos of Spain; at §31 Baldo's doctrine that a father who stipulated a feud for himself and his sons can do no act of renunciation prejudicing that right; at §32 that after the father's death his heirs will not be heard to impugn what he did in life if they were left other free goods as great or greater, unless ready to pay the whole price and interest of the revocation; and at §33 the vulgar rule that whoever is bound to warrant what another did cannot impugn or contradict it · primary
The opening and the objection to it. At §21 the author returns to the prohibition and notes "que aunque algunas veces permite el Derecho, que las cosas prohibidas de enagenar, lo puedan ser por causa de dote". At §22 the feudal law is reported against the opening: regularly feuds cannot be given in dowry or alienated for that cause "sin particular consentimiento del Señor de el Feudo: porque la dacion in dotem, se tiene por venta", the authorities refuting Anguísola's contrary opinion and adding "que, si aun no es licito al Feudatario, enagenar el Feudo por sus propias necessidades; menos se le permitirá por la de el dote, y remedio de sus hijas, aunque esta causa sea en sí tan privilegiada." The privileged cause of a daughter's marriage is thus ranked below the lord's interest and not above it.
confidence 0.9Política Indiana, libro III, capítulo XV, §§21-33 — the encomienda as marriage property and the renunciation in favour of a child: at §21 that although the law sometimes permits things prohibited from alienation to be alienated 'por causa de dote'; at §22 that in feuds it is settled that regularly they cannot be given in dowry or alienated for that cause 'sin particular consentimiento del Señor de el Feudo: porque la dacion in dotem, se tiene por venta', refuting Anguísola, and that 'si aun no es licito al Feudatario, enagenar el Feudo por sus propias necessidades; menos se le permitirá por la de el dote, y remedio de sus hijas, aunque esta causa sea en sí tan privilegiada'; at §23 that this does not prevent that 'si alguna muger tiene en su cabeza algun Feudo, ò Encomienda, pueda, tratando de casarse, darla en dote consigo, sin estimarla, para sustentar las cargas de el matrimonio, como sucede, en los que gozan, y posseen Mayorazgos: porque entonces no se muda la condicion, ò persona del Feudo, ò de la Encomienda; sino solo se le dan al marido sus frutos, y rentas, que es su comodidad para el sustento de las dichas cargas'; at §24 that likewise a father with a daughter to marry who is immediate successor in the encomienda may make 'dexacion de ella para este efecto, y à titulo de dote, ò aumento de él', as some Cédulas Reales expressly advise, 'Y aun ay otra del año 1540, en que el señor Emperador Carlos V. aprueba cierto traspasso de una Encomienda, que un Padre havia hecho en un hijo suyo, para poderle casar mejor, y mas noblemente'; at §25 that such approvals seem not even to have been necessary where the daughter is immediate successor, on Rolando in terms of feuds; at §26 the question the author says he saw litigated, whether a father who renounced in favour of a daughter and afterwards had a son, 'el qual como es llano, precede à las hijas en la succession de las Encomiendas', has the transfer revoked, 'Pues parece, que el padre no pudo perjudicar al derecho del hijo, llamado por la providencia, y disposicion de la ley de las Encomiendas'; at §27 that he inclines much to think it must be revoked, on a law of the Emperor Constantine illustrated by Tiraqueau; at §28 that where the act was not perfected it may and must be retracted 'sobreviniendo nueva, y legitima causa'; at §29 Pedro Surdo on persons admitted to a thing and displaced when another appears with better right; at §30 a Glossa of the Feuds holding that 'el hijo varon concebido, y nacido despues de averse deferido la succession del Feudo, excluye à la hembra, que ya se hallaba admitida, è introducida en ella', applied by Molina's Adicionador to the mayorazgos of Spain; at §31 Baldo's doctrine that a father who stipulated a feud for himself and his sons can do no act of renunciation prejudicing that right; at §32 that after the father's death his heirs will not be heard to impugn what he did in life if they were left other free goods as great or greater, unless ready to pay the whole price and interest of the revocation; and at §33 the vulgar rule that whoever is bound to warrant what another did cannot impugn or contradict it · primary
The case in which a woman's own grant may go with her, and the mechanism. At §23, "Pero esto no impide, que si alguna muger tiene en su cabeza algun Feudo, ò Encomienda, pueda, tratando de casarse, darla en dote consigo, sin estimarla, para sustentar las cargas de el matrimonio, como sucede, en los que gozan, y posseen Mayorazgos: porque entonces no se muda la condicion, ò persona del Feudo, ò de la Encomienda; sino solo se le dan al marido sus frutos, y rentas, que es su comodidad para el sustento de las dichas cargas." The grant stayed hers and the title did not move; what passed to the husband was the revenue. "Sin estimarla" — without its being valued — keeps it out of the dowry's reckoning, so it is not a thing alienated.
confidence 0.9Política Indiana, libro III, capítulo XV, §§21-33 — the encomienda as marriage property and the renunciation in favour of a child: at §21 that although the law sometimes permits things prohibited from alienation to be alienated 'por causa de dote'; at §22 that in feuds it is settled that regularly they cannot be given in dowry or alienated for that cause 'sin particular consentimiento del Señor de el Feudo: porque la dacion in dotem, se tiene por venta', refuting Anguísola, and that 'si aun no es licito al Feudatario, enagenar el Feudo por sus propias necessidades; menos se le permitirá por la de el dote, y remedio de sus hijas, aunque esta causa sea en sí tan privilegiada'; at §23 that this does not prevent that 'si alguna muger tiene en su cabeza algun Feudo, ò Encomienda, pueda, tratando de casarse, darla en dote consigo, sin estimarla, para sustentar las cargas de el matrimonio, como sucede, en los que gozan, y posseen Mayorazgos: porque entonces no se muda la condicion, ò persona del Feudo, ò de la Encomienda; sino solo se le dan al marido sus frutos, y rentas, que es su comodidad para el sustento de las dichas cargas'; at §24 that likewise a father with a daughter to marry who is immediate successor in the encomienda may make 'dexacion de ella para este efecto, y à titulo de dote, ò aumento de él', as some Cédulas Reales expressly advise, 'Y aun ay otra del año 1540, en que el señor Emperador Carlos V. aprueba cierto traspasso de una Encomienda, que un Padre havia hecho en un hijo suyo, para poderle casar mejor, y mas noblemente'; at §25 that such approvals seem not even to have been necessary where the daughter is immediate successor, on Rolando in terms of feuds; at §26 the question the author says he saw litigated, whether a father who renounced in favour of a daughter and afterwards had a son, 'el qual como es llano, precede à las hijas en la succession de las Encomiendas', has the transfer revoked, 'Pues parece, que el padre no pudo perjudicar al derecho del hijo, llamado por la providencia, y disposicion de la ley de las Encomiendas'; at §27 that he inclines much to think it must be revoked, on a law of the Emperor Constantine illustrated by Tiraqueau; at §28 that where the act was not perfected it may and must be retracted 'sobreviniendo nueva, y legitima causa'; at §29 Pedro Surdo on persons admitted to a thing and displaced when another appears with better right; at §30 a Glossa of the Feuds holding that 'el hijo varon concebido, y nacido despues de averse deferido la succession del Feudo, excluye à la hembra, que ya se hallaba admitida, è introducida en ella', applied by Molina's Adicionador to the mayorazgos of Spain; at §31 Baldo's doctrine that a father who stipulated a feud for himself and his sons can do no act of renunciation prejudicing that right; at §32 that after the father's death his heirs will not be heard to impugn what he did in life if they were left other free goods as great or greater, unless ready to pay the whole price and interest of the revocation; and at §33 the vulgar rule that whoever is bound to warrant what another did cannot impugn or contradict it · primary
The father's resignation, and the imperial approval cited for it. At §24, "Y de la misma manera podrá el Padre, que tiene alguna hija para casar, la qual es immediata successora en la Encomienda, hacerle, si quisiere, desde luego dexacion de ella para este efecto, y à titulo de dote, ò aumento de él: como expressamente está advertido por algunas Cedulas Reales, que dexé tocadas arriba en el Cap. VII. de este Libro. Y aun ay otra del año 1540, en que el señor Emperador Carlos V. aprueba cierto traspasso de una Encomienda, que un Padre havia hecho en un hijo suyo, para poderle casar mejor, y mas noblemente." The worked precedent the author reaches for after four paragraphs about daughters is a transfer to a son, and the stated purpose of that one is the son's better and nobler marriage. Neither the 1540 cédula nor the cédulas of capítulo VII was opened in its own register here.
confidence 0.9Política Indiana, libro III, capítulo XV, §§21-33 — the encomienda as marriage property and the renunciation in favour of a child: at §21 that although the law sometimes permits things prohibited from alienation to be alienated 'por causa de dote'; at §22 that in feuds it is settled that regularly they cannot be given in dowry or alienated for that cause 'sin particular consentimiento del Señor de el Feudo: porque la dacion in dotem, se tiene por venta', refuting Anguísola, and that 'si aun no es licito al Feudatario, enagenar el Feudo por sus propias necessidades; menos se le permitirá por la de el dote, y remedio de sus hijas, aunque esta causa sea en sí tan privilegiada'; at §23 that this does not prevent that 'si alguna muger tiene en su cabeza algun Feudo, ò Encomienda, pueda, tratando de casarse, darla en dote consigo, sin estimarla, para sustentar las cargas de el matrimonio, como sucede, en los que gozan, y posseen Mayorazgos: porque entonces no se muda la condicion, ò persona del Feudo, ò de la Encomienda; sino solo se le dan al marido sus frutos, y rentas, que es su comodidad para el sustento de las dichas cargas'; at §24 that likewise a father with a daughter to marry who is immediate successor in the encomienda may make 'dexacion de ella para este efecto, y à titulo de dote, ò aumento de él', as some Cédulas Reales expressly advise, 'Y aun ay otra del año 1540, en que el señor Emperador Carlos V. aprueba cierto traspasso de una Encomienda, que un Padre havia hecho en un hijo suyo, para poderle casar mejor, y mas noblemente'; at §25 that such approvals seem not even to have been necessary where the daughter is immediate successor, on Rolando in terms of feuds; at §26 the question the author says he saw litigated, whether a father who renounced in favour of a daughter and afterwards had a son, 'el qual como es llano, precede à las hijas en la succession de las Encomiendas', has the transfer revoked, 'Pues parece, que el padre no pudo perjudicar al derecho del hijo, llamado por la providencia, y disposicion de la ley de las Encomiendas'; at §27 that he inclines much to think it must be revoked, on a law of the Emperor Constantine illustrated by Tiraqueau; at §28 that where the act was not perfected it may and must be retracted 'sobreviniendo nueva, y legitima causa'; at §29 Pedro Surdo on persons admitted to a thing and displaced when another appears with better right; at §30 a Glossa of the Feuds holding that 'el hijo varon concebido, y nacido despues de averse deferido la succession del Feudo, excluye à la hembra, que ya se hallaba admitida, è introducida en ella', applied by Molina's Adicionador to the mayorazgos of Spain; at §31 Baldo's doctrine that a father who stipulated a feud for himself and his sons can do no act of renunciation prejudicing that right; at §32 that after the father's death his heirs will not be heard to impugn what he did in life if they were left other free goods as great or greater, unless ready to pay the whole price and interest of the revocation; and at §33 the vulgar rule that whoever is bound to warrant what another did cannot impugn or contradict it · primary
The author then doubts that royal approval was needed at all. At §25, "Y aun parece, que estas aprobaciones no eran necessarias, quando la hija, como he dicho, es la inmediata successora: porque en terminos de Feudos refiere Rolando, y otros que le siguen, que no se necesita del consentimiento del Señor, para que el Vassallo los pueda traspassar en su proximo, è inmediato successor." A transfer to the person who would take the grant anyway is treated as anticipating the succession rather than alienating it.
confidence 0.9Política Indiana, libro III, capítulo XV, §§21-33 — the encomienda as marriage property and the renunciation in favour of a child: at §21 that although the law sometimes permits things prohibited from alienation to be alienated 'por causa de dote'; at §22 that in feuds it is settled that regularly they cannot be given in dowry or alienated for that cause 'sin particular consentimiento del Señor de el Feudo: porque la dacion in dotem, se tiene por venta', refuting Anguísola, and that 'si aun no es licito al Feudatario, enagenar el Feudo por sus propias necessidades; menos se le permitirá por la de el dote, y remedio de sus hijas, aunque esta causa sea en sí tan privilegiada'; at §23 that this does not prevent that 'si alguna muger tiene en su cabeza algun Feudo, ò Encomienda, pueda, tratando de casarse, darla en dote consigo, sin estimarla, para sustentar las cargas de el matrimonio, como sucede, en los que gozan, y posseen Mayorazgos: porque entonces no se muda la condicion, ò persona del Feudo, ò de la Encomienda; sino solo se le dan al marido sus frutos, y rentas, que es su comodidad para el sustento de las dichas cargas'; at §24 that likewise a father with a daughter to marry who is immediate successor in the encomienda may make 'dexacion de ella para este efecto, y à titulo de dote, ò aumento de él', as some Cédulas Reales expressly advise, 'Y aun ay otra del año 1540, en que el señor Emperador Carlos V. aprueba cierto traspasso de una Encomienda, que un Padre havia hecho en un hijo suyo, para poderle casar mejor, y mas noblemente'; at §25 that such approvals seem not even to have been necessary where the daughter is immediate successor, on Rolando in terms of feuds; at §26 the question the author says he saw litigated, whether a father who renounced in favour of a daughter and afterwards had a son, 'el qual como es llano, precede à las hijas en la succession de las Encomiendas', has the transfer revoked, 'Pues parece, que el padre no pudo perjudicar al derecho del hijo, llamado por la providencia, y disposicion de la ley de las Encomiendas'; at §27 that he inclines much to think it must be revoked, on a law of the Emperor Constantine illustrated by Tiraqueau; at §28 that where the act was not perfected it may and must be retracted 'sobreviniendo nueva, y legitima causa'; at §29 Pedro Surdo on persons admitted to a thing and displaced when another appears with better right; at §30 a Glossa of the Feuds holding that 'el hijo varon concebido, y nacido despues de averse deferido la succession del Feudo, excluye à la hembra, que ya se hallaba admitida, è introducida en ella', applied by Molina's Adicionador to the mayorazgos of Spain; at §31 Baldo's doctrine that a father who stipulated a feud for himself and his sons can do no act of renunciation prejudicing that right; at §32 that after the father's death his heirs will not be heard to impugn what he did in life if they were left other free goods as great or greater, unless ready to pay the whole price and interest of the revocation; and at §33 the vulgar rule that whoever is bound to warrant what another did cannot impugn or contradict it · primary
The question the author says he saw argued in court, stated in his own voice. At §26, "Pero ofrecesse en este punto una buena question, que ya la vi deducir en pleyto, y es, si aviendo el padre renunciado en la hija por esta causa sucediesse tener despues algun hijo varon, el qual como es llano, precede à las hijas en la succession de las Encomiendas, se revocará el traspasso ya en ella hecho por dicha causa? Pues parece, que el padre no pudo perjudicar al derecho del hijo, llamado por la providencia, y disposicion de la ley de las Encomiendas." Two things are settled in passing: that sons plainly preceded daughters in the succession to encomiendas, and that the daughter's title came from the father's act while the son's came from the law. The case carries no party, court, place or date on the page.
confidence 0.9Política Indiana, libro III, capítulo XV, §§21-33 — the encomienda as marriage property and the renunciation in favour of a child: at §21 that although the law sometimes permits things prohibited from alienation to be alienated 'por causa de dote'; at §22 that in feuds it is settled that regularly they cannot be given in dowry or alienated for that cause 'sin particular consentimiento del Señor de el Feudo: porque la dacion in dotem, se tiene por venta', refuting Anguísola, and that 'si aun no es licito al Feudatario, enagenar el Feudo por sus propias necessidades; menos se le permitirá por la de el dote, y remedio de sus hijas, aunque esta causa sea en sí tan privilegiada'; at §23 that this does not prevent that 'si alguna muger tiene en su cabeza algun Feudo, ò Encomienda, pueda, tratando de casarse, darla en dote consigo, sin estimarla, para sustentar las cargas de el matrimonio, como sucede, en los que gozan, y posseen Mayorazgos: porque entonces no se muda la condicion, ò persona del Feudo, ò de la Encomienda; sino solo se le dan al marido sus frutos, y rentas, que es su comodidad para el sustento de las dichas cargas'; at §24 that likewise a father with a daughter to marry who is immediate successor in the encomienda may make 'dexacion de ella para este efecto, y à titulo de dote, ò aumento de él', as some Cédulas Reales expressly advise, 'Y aun ay otra del año 1540, en que el señor Emperador Carlos V. aprueba cierto traspasso de una Encomienda, que un Padre havia hecho en un hijo suyo, para poderle casar mejor, y mas noblemente'; at §25 that such approvals seem not even to have been necessary where the daughter is immediate successor, on Rolando in terms of feuds; at §26 the question the author says he saw litigated, whether a father who renounced in favour of a daughter and afterwards had a son, 'el qual como es llano, precede à las hijas en la succession de las Encomiendas', has the transfer revoked, 'Pues parece, que el padre no pudo perjudicar al derecho del hijo, llamado por la providencia, y disposicion de la ley de las Encomiendas'; at §27 that he inclines much to think it must be revoked, on a law of the Emperor Constantine illustrated by Tiraqueau; at §28 that where the act was not perfected it may and must be retracted 'sobreviniendo nueva, y legitima causa'; at §29 Pedro Surdo on persons admitted to a thing and displaced when another appears with better right; at §30 a Glossa of the Feuds holding that 'el hijo varon concebido, y nacido despues de averse deferido la succession del Feudo, excluye à la hembra, que ya se hallaba admitida, è introducida en ella', applied by Molina's Adicionador to the mayorazgos of Spain; at §31 Baldo's doctrine that a father who stipulated a feud for himself and his sons can do no act of renunciation prejudicing that right; at §32 that after the father's death his heirs will not be heard to impugn what he did in life if they were left other free goods as great or greater, unless ready to pay the whole price and interest of the revocation; and at §33 the vulgar rule that whoever is bound to warrant what another did cannot impugn or contradict it · primary
His answer, and it goes against the married daughter. At §27, "Inclinome mucho à pensar, que se debe revocar", resting on "aquella tan notable como vulgar ley del Emperador Constantino, que tan latamente ilustró Tiraquelo". At §28 the reasoning: although what is granted to one cannot be granted to another during the first grant, and an acquisition made for its sake is perfect, valid and irrevocable, "pero donde no intervino esto, como en el caso, de que hablamos, ni el acto quedó perfecto, bien se puede, y debe retractar, sobreviniendo nueva, y legitima causa, que assi lo pida, y requiera." At §29 Pedro Surdo is cited for many like cases in which a person admitted to something is displaced when another appears with better right, "porque antes suele suceder esto muy de ordinario."
confidence 0.9Política Indiana, libro III, capítulo XV, §§21-33 — the encomienda as marriage property and the renunciation in favour of a child: at §21 that although the law sometimes permits things prohibited from alienation to be alienated 'por causa de dote'; at §22 that in feuds it is settled that regularly they cannot be given in dowry or alienated for that cause 'sin particular consentimiento del Señor de el Feudo: porque la dacion in dotem, se tiene por venta', refuting Anguísola, and that 'si aun no es licito al Feudatario, enagenar el Feudo por sus propias necessidades; menos se le permitirá por la de el dote, y remedio de sus hijas, aunque esta causa sea en sí tan privilegiada'; at §23 that this does not prevent that 'si alguna muger tiene en su cabeza algun Feudo, ò Encomienda, pueda, tratando de casarse, darla en dote consigo, sin estimarla, para sustentar las cargas de el matrimonio, como sucede, en los que gozan, y posseen Mayorazgos: porque entonces no se muda la condicion, ò persona del Feudo, ò de la Encomienda; sino solo se le dan al marido sus frutos, y rentas, que es su comodidad para el sustento de las dichas cargas'; at §24 that likewise a father with a daughter to marry who is immediate successor in the encomienda may make 'dexacion de ella para este efecto, y à titulo de dote, ò aumento de él', as some Cédulas Reales expressly advise, 'Y aun ay otra del año 1540, en que el señor Emperador Carlos V. aprueba cierto traspasso de una Encomienda, que un Padre havia hecho en un hijo suyo, para poderle casar mejor, y mas noblemente'; at §25 that such approvals seem not even to have been necessary where the daughter is immediate successor, on Rolando in terms of feuds; at §26 the question the author says he saw litigated, whether a father who renounced in favour of a daughter and afterwards had a son, 'el qual como es llano, precede à las hijas en la succession de las Encomiendas', has the transfer revoked, 'Pues parece, que el padre no pudo perjudicar al derecho del hijo, llamado por la providencia, y disposicion de la ley de las Encomiendas'; at §27 that he inclines much to think it must be revoked, on a law of the Emperor Constantine illustrated by Tiraqueau; at §28 that where the act was not perfected it may and must be retracted 'sobreviniendo nueva, y legitima causa'; at §29 Pedro Surdo on persons admitted to a thing and displaced when another appears with better right; at §30 a Glossa of the Feuds holding that 'el hijo varon concebido, y nacido despues de averse deferido la succession del Feudo, excluye à la hembra, que ya se hallaba admitida, è introducida en ella', applied by Molina's Adicionador to the mayorazgos of Spain; at §31 Baldo's doctrine that a father who stipulated a feud for himself and his sons can do no act of renunciation prejudicing that right; at §32 that after the father's death his heirs will not be heard to impugn what he did in life if they were left other free goods as great or greater, unless ready to pay the whole price and interest of the revocation; and at §33 the vulgar rule that whoever is bound to warrant what another did cannot impugn or contradict it · primary
The closest authority is a feudal gloss, and its rule is stated of the sex. At §30, "Y es maravilloso el de una Glossa de los Feudos, que enseña, que el hijo varon concebido, y nacido despues de averse deferido la succession del Feudo, excluye à la hembra, que ya se hallaba admitida, è introducida en ella", followed by many feudists and applied by Molina's Adicionador to the mayorazgos of Spain. A daughter already in possession loses it to a brother conceived and born after she took it.
confidence 0.9Política Indiana, libro III, capítulo XV, §§21-33 — the encomienda as marriage property and the renunciation in favour of a child: at §21 that although the law sometimes permits things prohibited from alienation to be alienated 'por causa de dote'; at §22 that in feuds it is settled that regularly they cannot be given in dowry or alienated for that cause 'sin particular consentimiento del Señor de el Feudo: porque la dacion in dotem, se tiene por venta', refuting Anguísola, and that 'si aun no es licito al Feudatario, enagenar el Feudo por sus propias necessidades; menos se le permitirá por la de el dote, y remedio de sus hijas, aunque esta causa sea en sí tan privilegiada'; at §23 that this does not prevent that 'si alguna muger tiene en su cabeza algun Feudo, ò Encomienda, pueda, tratando de casarse, darla en dote consigo, sin estimarla, para sustentar las cargas de el matrimonio, como sucede, en los que gozan, y posseen Mayorazgos: porque entonces no se muda la condicion, ò persona del Feudo, ò de la Encomienda; sino solo se le dan al marido sus frutos, y rentas, que es su comodidad para el sustento de las dichas cargas'; at §24 that likewise a father with a daughter to marry who is immediate successor in the encomienda may make 'dexacion de ella para este efecto, y à titulo de dote, ò aumento de él', as some Cédulas Reales expressly advise, 'Y aun ay otra del año 1540, en que el señor Emperador Carlos V. aprueba cierto traspasso de una Encomienda, que un Padre havia hecho en un hijo suyo, para poderle casar mejor, y mas noblemente'; at §25 that such approvals seem not even to have been necessary where the daughter is immediate successor, on Rolando in terms of feuds; at §26 the question the author says he saw litigated, whether a father who renounced in favour of a daughter and afterwards had a son, 'el qual como es llano, precede à las hijas en la succession de las Encomiendas', has the transfer revoked, 'Pues parece, que el padre no pudo perjudicar al derecho del hijo, llamado por la providencia, y disposicion de la ley de las Encomiendas'; at §27 that he inclines much to think it must be revoked, on a law of the Emperor Constantine illustrated by Tiraqueau; at §28 that where the act was not perfected it may and must be retracted 'sobreviniendo nueva, y legitima causa'; at §29 Pedro Surdo on persons admitted to a thing and displaced when another appears with better right; at §30 a Glossa of the Feuds holding that 'el hijo varon concebido, y nacido despues de averse deferido la succession del Feudo, excluye à la hembra, que ya se hallaba admitida, è introducida en ella', applied by Molina's Adicionador to the mayorazgos of Spain; at §31 Baldo's doctrine that a father who stipulated a feud for himself and his sons can do no act of renunciation prejudicing that right; at §32 that after the father's death his heirs will not be heard to impugn what he did in life if they were left other free goods as great or greater, unless ready to pay the whole price and interest of the revocation; and at §33 the vulgar rule that whoever is bound to warrant what another did cannot impugn or contradict it · primary
Two further supports, one of which cuts the other way. At §31 Baldo's doctrine of a father who had stipulated and acquired a feud for himself and his sons, who therefore "no podrá hacer acto alguno de renunciacion, o en otra forma, que pueda perjudicarles à este derecho". At §32, however, the heirs are barred from upsetting the father's act after his death "si acaso huvieren quedado por sus herederos en otros bienes libres, mas quantiosos, ò tanto como los del Feudo, ò Encomienda, que tratan de retractar, y revocar; sino es que estén aparejados à dár, y pagar de estos tales bienes todo el precio, è interés, en que se pueda estimar la revocacion". At §33 the vulgar rule "que quien está obligado à sanear, lo que otro hizo, no puede impugnarlo, ni contradecirlo", with Molina moving a very similar question. The later-born son's claim is therefore strong against the transfer while the father lives and weak against it once the son has taken the father's other property.
confidence 0.9Política Indiana, libro III, capítulo XV, §§21-33 — the encomienda as marriage property and the renunciation in favour of a child: at §21 that although the law sometimes permits things prohibited from alienation to be alienated 'por causa de dote'; at §22 that in feuds it is settled that regularly they cannot be given in dowry or alienated for that cause 'sin particular consentimiento del Señor de el Feudo: porque la dacion in dotem, se tiene por venta', refuting Anguísola, and that 'si aun no es licito al Feudatario, enagenar el Feudo por sus propias necessidades; menos se le permitirá por la de el dote, y remedio de sus hijas, aunque esta causa sea en sí tan privilegiada'; at §23 that this does not prevent that 'si alguna muger tiene en su cabeza algun Feudo, ò Encomienda, pueda, tratando de casarse, darla en dote consigo, sin estimarla, para sustentar las cargas de el matrimonio, como sucede, en los que gozan, y posseen Mayorazgos: porque entonces no se muda la condicion, ò persona del Feudo, ò de la Encomienda; sino solo se le dan al marido sus frutos, y rentas, que es su comodidad para el sustento de las dichas cargas'; at §24 that likewise a father with a daughter to marry who is immediate successor in the encomienda may make 'dexacion de ella para este efecto, y à titulo de dote, ò aumento de él', as some Cédulas Reales expressly advise, 'Y aun ay otra del año 1540, en que el señor Emperador Carlos V. aprueba cierto traspasso de una Encomienda, que un Padre havia hecho en un hijo suyo, para poderle casar mejor, y mas noblemente'; at §25 that such approvals seem not even to have been necessary where the daughter is immediate successor, on Rolando in terms of feuds; at §26 the question the author says he saw litigated, whether a father who renounced in favour of a daughter and afterwards had a son, 'el qual como es llano, precede à las hijas en la succession de las Encomiendas', has the transfer revoked, 'Pues parece, que el padre no pudo perjudicar al derecho del hijo, llamado por la providencia, y disposicion de la ley de las Encomiendas'; at §27 that he inclines much to think it must be revoked, on a law of the Emperor Constantine illustrated by Tiraqueau; at §28 that where the act was not perfected it may and must be retracted 'sobreviniendo nueva, y legitima causa'; at §29 Pedro Surdo on persons admitted to a thing and displaced when another appears with better right; at §30 a Glossa of the Feuds holding that 'el hijo varon concebido, y nacido despues de averse deferido la succession del Feudo, excluye à la hembra, que ya se hallaba admitida, è introducida en ella', applied by Molina's Adicionador to the mayorazgos of Spain; at §31 Baldo's doctrine that a father who stipulated a feud for himself and his sons can do no act of renunciation prejudicing that right; at §32 that after the father's death his heirs will not be heard to impugn what he did in life if they were left other free goods as great or greater, unless ready to pay the whole price and interest of the revocation; and at §33 the vulgar rule that whoever is bound to warrant what another did cannot impugn or contradict it · primary
What this entry establishes and what it does not. It establishes that the standard treatise on the law of the Indies treated the encomienda as capable of functioning as marriage property within narrow limits: that a woman holding a grant in her own head could carry it into marriage "sin estimarla" to meet the charges of the household, the title staying hers and only the fruits and rents passing to the husband; that a father could make dejación of his grant in favour of a daughter who was his immediate successor, as dowry or increase of dowry, on the authority of Cédulas Reales the author places in capítulo VII of the same book; that a cédula of 1540 is cited in which Charles V approved a transfer from a father to a son "para poderle casar mejor, y mas noblemente"; that such approvals were arguably unnecessary where the transferee was the immediate successor; and that sons preceded daughters in the succession, so a son born after a resignation to a daughter raised a question the author says he saw litigated and answered, inclining, against the daughter, on a law of Constantine and a feudal gloss holding that a son "concebido, y nacido despues" excludes a female already in possession. It establishes nothing about outcomes: the litigated case carries no party, court, place, date or result, no woman who held or carried an encomienda is named anywhere in the range, and none of the cédulas or authorities — the 1540 approval, the cédulas of capítulo VII, Anguísola, Rolando, Tiraqueau, Pedro Surdo, Baldo, the Glossa of the Feuds, Molina and his Adicionador — was opened in its own printing. The opening the chapter makes is real and it is small: it is measured against the lord's interest at §22, defeasible by a later-born brother at §30, and its substance throughout is the revenue. In thirteen paragraphs about who may take an encomienda into a marriage, the people of the encomienda appear once, as the "frutos, y rentas" that sustain the charges of a household.
confidence 0.9Política Indiana, libro III, capítulo XV, §§21-33 — the encomienda as marriage property and the renunciation in favour of a child: at §21 that although the law sometimes permits things prohibited from alienation to be alienated 'por causa de dote'; at §22 that in feuds it is settled that regularly they cannot be given in dowry or alienated for that cause 'sin particular consentimiento del Señor de el Feudo: porque la dacion in dotem, se tiene por venta', refuting Anguísola, and that 'si aun no es licito al Feudatario, enagenar el Feudo por sus propias necessidades; menos se le permitirá por la de el dote, y remedio de sus hijas, aunque esta causa sea en sí tan privilegiada'; at §23 that this does not prevent that 'si alguna muger tiene en su cabeza algun Feudo, ò Encomienda, pueda, tratando de casarse, darla en dote consigo, sin estimarla, para sustentar las cargas de el matrimonio, como sucede, en los que gozan, y posseen Mayorazgos: porque entonces no se muda la condicion, ò persona del Feudo, ò de la Encomienda; sino solo se le dan al marido sus frutos, y rentas, que es su comodidad para el sustento de las dichas cargas'; at §24 that likewise a father with a daughter to marry who is immediate successor in the encomienda may make 'dexacion de ella para este efecto, y à titulo de dote, ò aumento de él', as some Cédulas Reales expressly advise, 'Y aun ay otra del año 1540, en que el señor Emperador Carlos V. aprueba cierto traspasso de una Encomienda, que un Padre havia hecho en un hijo suyo, para poderle casar mejor, y mas noblemente'; at §25 that such approvals seem not even to have been necessary where the daughter is immediate successor, on Rolando in terms of feuds; at §26 the question the author says he saw litigated, whether a father who renounced in favour of a daughter and afterwards had a son, 'el qual como es llano, precede à las hijas en la succession de las Encomiendas', has the transfer revoked, 'Pues parece, que el padre no pudo perjudicar al derecho del hijo, llamado por la providencia, y disposicion de la ley de las Encomiendas'; at §27 that he inclines much to think it must be revoked, on a law of the Emperor Constantine illustrated by Tiraqueau; at §28 that where the act was not perfected it may and must be retracted 'sobreviniendo nueva, y legitima causa'; at §29 Pedro Surdo on persons admitted to a thing and displaced when another appears with better right; at §30 a Glossa of the Feuds holding that 'el hijo varon concebido, y nacido despues de averse deferido la succession del Feudo, excluye à la hembra, que ya se hallaba admitida, è introducida en ella', applied by Molina's Adicionador to the mayorazgos of Spain; at §31 Baldo's doctrine that a father who stipulated a feud for himself and his sons can do no act of renunciation prejudicing that right; at §32 that after the father's death his heirs will not be heard to impugn what he did in life if they were left other free goods as great or greater, unless ready to pay the whole price and interest of the revocation; and at §33 the vulgar rule that whoever is bound to warrant what another did cannot impugn or contradict it · primary