Abstract
We intend to analyze the performance of royal Justice in relation to a group of subjects who lived in Minas maddening experience and were declared incapable under the law. Research on the performance of judges of orphans responsible for the case of dementia summaries by making and conduct of inventories processes of demented and monitoring of curatorship, will better understand the role and scope of that Justice, exercised in the name of the king, in with regard to the regulation and system of the local social life. It is a study of inventories of cases of declared demented individuals in the County of Rio das Velhas during the eighteenth century. There are sixteen processes found for Sabará village and its end, which shed a peculiar facet of the performance of judges of orphans and also the very social history of madness in the peripheral areas of the Portuguese Empire.
Keywords:
Madness; orphans courts; dementia summaries