Background
Cutter, Charles Ross was born on September 22, 1950 in Berkeley, California, United States. Son of Donald Colgett and Charlotte Leona (Lazear) Cutter.
( Spain's colonial rule rested on a judicial system that ...)
Spain's colonial rule rested on a judicial system that resolved conflicts and meted out justice. But just how was this legal order imposed throughout the New World? Re-created here from six hundred civil and criminal cases are the procedural and ethical workings of the law in two of Spain's remote colonies--New Mexico and Texas in the eighteenth century. Professor Cutter challenges the traditional view that the legal system was inherently corrupt and irrelevant to the mass of society, and that local judicial officials were uninformed and inept. Instead he found that even in peripheral areas the lowest-level officials--the alcalde or town magistrate--had a greater impact on daily life and a keener understanding of the law than previously acknowledged by historians. These local officials exhibited flexibility and sensitivity to frontier conditions, and their rulings generally conformed to community expectations of justice. By examining colonial legal culture, Cutter reveals the attitudes of settlers, their notions of right and wrong, and how they fixed a boundary between proper and improper actions. "A superlative work."--Marc Simmons, author of Spanish Government in New Mexico
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(Spain's colonial rule rested on a judicial system that re...)
Spain's colonial rule rested on a judicial system that resolved conflicts and meted out justice. But just how was this legal order imposed throughout the New World? Re-created here from six hundred civil and criminal cases are the procedural and ethical workings of the law in two of Spain's remote colonies New Mexico and Texas in the eighteenth century. Professor Cutter challenges the traditional view that the legal system was inherently corrupt and irrelevant to the mass of society, and that local judicial officials were uninformed and inept. Instead he found that even in peripheral areas the lowest-level officials the alcalde or town magistrate had a greater impact on daily life and a keener understanding of the law than previously acknowledged by historians. These local officials exhibited flexibility and sensitivity to frontier conditions, and their rulings generally conformed to community expectations of justice. By examining colonial legal culture, Cutter reveals the attitudes of settlers, their notions of right and wrong, and how they fixed a boundary between proper and improper actions.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0826316417/?tag=2022091-20
Cutter, Charles Ross was born on September 22, 1950 in Berkeley, California, United States. Son of Donald Colgett and Charlotte Leona (Lazear) Cutter.
Bachelor, University New Mexico, 1976. Master of Arts, University New Mexico, 1984. Doctor of Philosophy, University New Mexico, 1989.
Visiting assistant professor Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, 1987-1988. Visiting assistant professor Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1988-1991, assistant professor, 1991-1995, associate professor, since 1995, assistant head, director graduate studies Department of History, 1998—2001.
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(Spain's colonial rule rested on a judicial system that re...)
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Member Instituto Internacional de Historia del Derecho Indiano (elected 1992). American History Association, Conference on Latin American History, Western History Association, American Society for Legal History, Phi Alpha Theta (treasurer Sigma chapter 1982-1983, president 1983-1984).
Married Maryann Williams, August 8, 1976 (divorced August 1989). Children: Francisco, Casandra. Married Susan Curtis, January 11, 1992.