Abstract
The main objective of this work is to investigate the meaning of the practice of non-graduate lawyers in Brazil during the first quarter of the 19th century. This investigation will take into account the ways and mechanisms by which non-graduate lawyers related to each other, were situated in relations with the State or with the Society and put themselves in mediation between one and the other. Seeking to identify obstacles and strategies in the work of non-graduate lawyers, the set of these relationships will be researched based on the documentary source called “Applications for permission to be a lawyer”. This documentary source will also help describe how non-graduate lawyers viewed themselves, were seen and constituted themselves as agents of the state bureaucracy.
Keywords:
Brazilian monarchy; Political-administrative centralization; Non-graduate lawyers