Repositori URV

Identifier: TDX:545

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX545

Authors:
Estaran Peix, Juan Marcos

Abstract:
OF THE THESIS :JUSTICE AT THE END OF THE XIX CENTURY. A SPECIFIC CASE :THE MANRESA CRIMINAL HEARING (1882 - 1892)AUTHOR OF THE THESIS : JOAN MARC ESTARAN PEIXTHESIS DIRECTOR : PROFESSOR DR. MR. ANTONI M.JORDÀFERNANDEZThe thesis herein presented is structured, firstly, by an introduction of themain aims of the job, followed by a first part where the state of the JusticeAdministration at the end of the XIX century is analysed, considering theconstitutional historical frame; a second part aimed to the study andanalysis of Criminal Hearings, as new organs, and in charge of theapplication of the new Rule of Criminal Procedure of 1882 (from now onLECR, Spanish acronym); and a third part dedicated exclusively to thestudy of the Criminal Hearing of Manresa. In the final part we would findthe conclusions, sources and bibliography. The main sources ofinvestigation of the thesis have been mainly the Records of the Crown ofAragon, the National Historical Records, as well as the historicallegislation of that period.When the LECR of 1882 came into force a very important change in theway of judging Criminal Cases took place. The history of this change -which has not yet been studied - in the Criminal Proceedings and CriminalJustice, and the historical circumstances in which it was produced, of thepeople and institutions which for one reason or another influenced thishistorical and legal process, constitute the main points of this work, and themain aims could be summed up in the following points : 1) Theconstitutional situation of Justice en the XIX century considered more as anadministration than a power. 2) The enforcement and development of theLPOPJ of 1870, and of the 1882 Additional Law as an example of whatjustice like during the XIX century. 3) The enforcement of a newcriminal p