The magistrates were the ministers pointed to administrate the justice in the name of the King. Just as the
ordinations of the kingdom guided the assignments of the officers in Portugal, in the Portuguese America the
regiment were the legal device to conduct these officers’ behavior. In this work we discuss a study about the
regiments that directed the magistrates in Brazil, in a more specific way the regiment for the magistrates of the
captaincy of Pernambuco in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, with the perspective of trying to understand what were the spheres, the spaces of the jurisdiction attributed for these agents and also the influence or scope of this regiment within the space of the captaincies of the North. So, we discussed the articles that are in the regiment the captaincy of Pernambuco and narrated some actions that were practiced by the magistrates, according to indications on this device.
