Administration in Portuguese America 

Pernambuco and São Vicente prospered because of the planting of sugarcane and because they founded villages, donated sesmarias, and collaborated in the settlement and protection.

Medieval canonical tradition understood that the pope, God's representative on earth, holds universal jurisdiction over the lands.

The sesmaria was a mechanism to facilitate access to land.

The formation of- secular- laws was opposed to medieval, often customary traditions.

The institution of the hereditary captaincies inherited, with some specificities, the royal grant of lordship in ________ in the Late Middle Ages.

Sesmeiro: former Portuguese magistrate elected to divide and distribute the sesmarias . }.

The Martim Afonso de Sousa patrolled the coast and even expelled the French from the colonial territory.

Each donatory captain assumed legal responsibility for the land.

a series of social, political, economic, and mental transformations took place

laws was opposed to medieval, often customary traditions

while the Crown, in most cases, was present collecting taxes and setting up the inspection device

Sesmaria was an abandoned land belonging to Portugal and delivered for occupation

former Portuguese magistrate elected to divide and distribute the sesmarias.}

Six never came to Brazil

Pernambuco and São Vicente