Resumen

FLORES FLORES, Graciela. The Criminal Justice of the Old Regime: Sentences and Application of the Law in Mexico (1841-1857). Rev. IUS [online]. 2019, vol.13, n.43, pp.71-90. ISSN 1870-2147.

The purpose of this article is to study the History of Justice and the Law in Mexico from 1841 to 1857. In this period, the legal mechanisms that later fought two of the pillars of the old Regime Justice (the Broad Judicial discretion with which judges and normative pluralism) were developed through two requirements: The baseline of sentences and the exact application of the law.

Palabras llave : Foundation of Judgments; Judicial Arbitration; Exact Application of the Law; Law of January 5; 1857.