Pleito por una escribanía pública del número en Cádiz (1526): Cristóbal Díaz contra Diego Ramírez de la Rúa

Abstract

The possession of a notary of Cadiz number faced, in 1526 before the Royal Council of Castile, the Cadiz notary Diego Ramirez de la Rua and the royal notary Cristobal Diaz, brother of the notary converts, already exercising in the locality, Diego Gonzalez and Alonso de Medina. The development of this litigation makes possible, from the documents of the practice and its comparison with the legislation to use, an approach to the public notary of Cadiz at the beginning of the 16th century, based on institutional aspects such as personal, moral and aptitude requirements demanded both to the aspiring clerk as the notary public, as well as to the official means of access to the notarial offices and the private forms of transmission thereof. Moreover, it allows and offers an approach to the Cadiz society of the time of which the notaries form a prominent group.