La correspondencia inquisitorial entre el tribunal de Canarias y los tribunales Americanos. Las justificaciones de matrimonio

Abstract

In the context of the crime of bigamy, it was very important the practice of the evidence called «Justification of marriage», which was intended to demonstrate the celebration of a certain marriage in the inquisitorial district in which the proceedings were carried out. This practice could be initiated following a complaint in the court itself or from the request made by another district court. In order to understand the importance of it and its difficulty, it is also necessary to address the study of the profile of the bigamist and the correspondence maintained by the Canary Inquisitorial Court and the American Inquisitorial Courts, from the beginning of the 17th century until the mid-eighteenth century,at which time the Supreme banned this type of direct contact and forced the correspondence was maintained through it.