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Abstract (lang="eng"): In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a request for the granting of a sesmaria could lead to a much-coveted social advancement, promoting a farmer to the social category of a sesmeiro. Many had started by farming third-party land, others by occupying purportedly unowned vacant land. Furthermore, during this period, the Portuguese Empire acquired a significant expanse of territory, and this entailed acknowledging the existence of countless different kinds of farmers, with their own distinctive views about the nature of land occupation. Once the “Chancela Real"TN2 was obtained, many would most likely seek other grants, feeling privileged in comparison to the majority of colonials, who only had their own self-recognition of the ownership of their land to confirm the legitimacy of their occupancy. However, in the event of disputes with bordering neighbors, they had no titles which they could invoke. By using the “landowner” title confirmed by the Chancela Real, the sesmeiro made use of the existing legal procedures to establish himself as its legal occupant, but he was also able to take advantage of this power to incorporate more land, even though such action had no strict legal support. In this multifaceted game, this article retraces the paths followed by Ignácio Pamplona and Paes Leme, both emblematic examples of the Portuguese crown’s intervention in “land issues.”
Abstract (lang="por"): Em fins do séc. XVIII e início do seguinte, a solicitação de sesmarias poderia referendar a ascensão desejada, inserindo o lavrador nos quadros da categoria social de sesmeiro. Além disso, neste período, o Império adquiria uma territorialidade marcante e tal processo implicava o reconhecimento das inúmeras gradações de cultivadores, de perspectivas distintas na ação de ocupar. A partir da Chancela Real, é possível que muitos passassem a almejar outras mercês, sentindo-se um privilegiado em relação a uma maioria que apenas se amparava no auto-reconhecimento de ser um legítimo ocupante, mas que não podia usufruir de um título de domínio em eventuais querelas. Ao intitular-se senhor de uma terra, chancelada pela Coroa como mercê, o sesmeiro operava com os dispositivos da lei para consagrar-se como legal ocupante, como também expressava seu poder na incorporação de terras ao arrepio da lei.
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Identifier: DOI: 10.26300/x95y-qg54