The causes of litigation involving curators and guardians of minors during the Modern Age were very varied, but concentrated in a few types. The main cause of litigation was related to the restitution of property to minors, i.e. the accountability of the administrator towards the minor. In the Chancillería de Valladolid, out of 179 litigations for guardianships compiled by the author, this cause accounted for 30.2% of the total, followed by lawsuits between guardians and curators for maladministration (11.7%) and by problems related to inheritances and parental accounts (10.6%). Far behind are, for example, resignations of guardianships (3 cases out of 179), or the guardian’s squandering of the minor’s inheritance (2 out of 179). In sum, financial and material conditions accounted for more than half of the guardianship disputes.

Collection: Statistics

Project: 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity., 4. Family, daily life and social inequality in Europe.

Chronology: XVI, XVII, XVIII

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University

Link: https://www.adeh.org/revista/2013,%202/Maximo%20garcia%20Fernandez.pdf

Resource type: Statistics

Format: Table

Source: García Fernández, M. (2013). "Ya en pleitos desde la más tierna infancia: menores, tutores, litigios", en Revista de Demografía Histórica", XXXI, 2, p. 103.

Language: Spanish

Date: 2013

Owner: Pablo Ballesta Fernández (Modernalia)

Copyright: ©Revista de Demografía Histórica ©Máximo García Fernández

Abstract: Table categorising the typology of litigation by guardianship of the Chancery of Valladolid, where more than half are for economic-material reasons

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