Por D. Joseph Hurtado de Mendoza conde del Valle de Orizava, visconde de San Miguel
Subtitle: y regidor perpetuo de esta novilissima ciudad, se informan à asta [sic] real audiencia los meritos de justicia, que tiene para su defenza, en el pleyto : que los naturales del pueblo de Orizava le hán movido, sobre la propriedad, y possession de los sitios nombrados Escamela, y Massapa, que comprò D. Rodrigo de Vivero á dichos naturales desde el año de mil quinientos y setenta : Para que se reboque (hablando debidaménte) la sentencia de vista, pronunciada à los 18. de junio del año passado de 1721. en que se declarò nula la enagenacion de dichos sitios, y pertenecer en possession, y propriedad à dichos naturales, con otros puntos, que incluye, y se absuelva à dicho conde, de la demanda declarandose el dominio, y possession à su favor ...
Publisher: Por los herederos de la viuda de F. Rodriguez Lupercio ...
Published: 1726
Place of publication: En Mexico
Language: spa
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Land tenure; Indians of Mexico
Other titles: Hurtado de Mendoza pleito con los naturales del pueblo de Orizaba, Mexico, 1726
Notes: Signed at end: Ldo. D. Diego Sanchez Pereira.

Text and register continuous despite pagination.

Title within decorated border; head-piece; initial.

Modern boards with cloth spine and marbled paper sides; leather label on front cover.

"The Count of Orizaba here pleads for the audiencia to reverse its decision in a land dispute having its roots in a sixteenth-century land transfer. The properties of Escamela and Massapa, sold by the Indians of Orizaba in 1570 to a Rodrigo de Vivero, had passed from owner to owner and, in 1721, had been held by Don José Hurtado de Mendoza, the Count of Orizaba. At that time, the Indians had sued to have returned to them some lands of the parcel that they claimed were still rightfully theirs, the courts finding in their favor. Hurtado now seeks to have the properties restored to him, perhaps hoping to exercise his power as the new Conde de Orizaba, a title he had assumed only that same year, to influence the court"--Dealer's advertisement.

Sabin, 76305.

Medina, J.T. México, 2894.