The hidalguía of solar conocido : legislation and doctrine

Abstract

The inclusion of the qualification of «hijodalgo de solar conocido» in the census of the «moneda forera y servicio ordinario», did not conform exactly to the legal mandate establishing the terms that should be used in its preparation. In addition to proclaiming a higher hierarchical rank between subjects exempted from taxes, the use of this term in those documents had favourable effects in relation to the admission of this kind of «hidalguía» as a means to prove the propierty, outside the procedures established by the pragmatics of Córdoba on May 30, 1492, question debated by the doctrine of the 16th and 17th centuries.