Don Antonio Jose de Ayos and the reception of Roman Law in Colombia (SAEC. XVIII)

This article aboard the existing problem of the tension between "institutional tradition" and "neogranadinal illustration" through an important litigation that is considered a medullar aspect for the history of the reception of the Roman Law in Colombia, showing the judicial practice as a font of the Indian law, displaying a dynamical panorama of the university institutions in the Nuevo Reino de Granada. Over the study objetct, is understandable that from the controversy, this one presents one of the few cases of judical processing between tradition and modernity, which although predicted the new tendencies in the constant institutional diffusion of European juridical currents, that was leaving a deep impact in the university historical memory and of the neogranadina society.