A judicial party is a territorial division established by the administration of justice where there are one or more courts of first instance and investigation. It is usually integrated by more than one municipality in the same province. Before, the administration of justice rested with the corregidors and major and ordinary mayors. Previously, in battles and lords.
After the death of King Ferdinand VII (29/09/1833), the regent Maria Cristina made a major administrative reform with a new territorial division that remained in force for a century and a half: The regiments became known as 49 provinces (French model of departments). It also reorganizes the territories around the provincial capital (barracks, court and civil governor).
The following year, 1834, the provinces were divided into judicial parties taking into account provincial boundaries. In the judicial parties will be placed the courts of first instance and instruction, which will later be the basis for the electoral districts and the contribution. In 1868 there were 463 judicial parties (about eight municipalities). In the municipal elections of 1999 there were 8,037 councils.
Since those times, this division has undergone few tweaks (modification of limits or names and the change from being called civil governor to subdelegate of the government). The first modification of limits (1836) affects the town of Albaida (and others): extension of the province of Valencia to the coast of Alicante. Because? In the division of 1834, Albaida belonged to the province of Alicante.
Since then, this division has undergone minimal tweaking: some boundary and name changes and the change of name from political chief, first to civil governor, and later to government deputy.
The judicial party of Albaida in the province of Alicante was made up of 22 towns, "ditto for neighbors, 5,614; ditto souls, 22,893” :
Curiosities
- In the Municipal Archives of Albaida we have preserved more than 140 documents of the judicial party. Among other documents we have veredes (order or notice that is sent to make something known to a certain number of nearby places), budgets, verbal judgments, provisions, election of attorneys, etc.)
- Year 1896, queen regent - minority age of Alfonso XIII - Maria Cristina, on August 20 the court of first instance is closed and the city council requests a replacement of former mayor José Tormo Giménez. On August 27, a local council is created with the membership of 138 pro-hom residents of the town paying a fee until the state takes charge of its replacement. That will be November 23rd
5 years later, in 1901, the town council reimburses 60 % of the amounts advanced for the replacement of the court of first instance.
- Year 1926, attempt to suppress the court of first instance by the Spanish state for national economic reasons (precarious situation = burdensome/expensive expenses) and only to have moral support from the councils of the region. The town council of Albaida (the mayor was Rosendo Juan) gathers signatures for which they are not closed and is represented in Madrid by Elías Tormo (president of the Supreme Council of Public Instruction) and by his brother Santiago (lawyer), also goes to Madrid Isidro Ballester who lives in Valencia.
- In 1950, works are carried out in the court of first instance and investigation. The worker was Batiste Cerdà Pons, the sanitary installation was carried out by José Renú Abad, the painters were Ricardo Soler Galbis "Tormo" and Carmelo Soler Martínez "el d'Atzeneta", the carpenter was Manuel Boscà Antolí and the electrical installation was installed by S. Soler.
– The BOE of November 26, 1965 publishes decree 3388/1965, of November 11, amending the Judicial Demarcation... "The demarcation of judicial parties established by our old Organic Laws no longer meets the needs of the Administration of Justice...".
– the documentation corresponding to volumes IX to XI can be found in the National Historical Archive (1940-1968)
