| Summary: | An exceptional judicial proceeding for slanders and insults makes possible the analysis of three domains of the colonial justice of Chile: the temporality mentioned in the documents and the temporality of the lawsuit itself; speech, silence and the different witnesses’ and litigants’ writings, and the evocations of other persons; and finally, the range of conflicts enclosed in the lawsuit: previous trials, debated conflicts and underlying conflicts. Indeed, the judicial record of this one-day lawsuit in November 1747, interrupted upon the litigants’ request, enables the study through the gender theory, of the role of voices and representations within the judicial practices. It highlights the complexity of the judicial documents and offers juxtaposed readings to understand the situations and circumstances in which they appear.
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