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Manoel de Lemos Mesa

LEMOS MESA, Manoel de (lay'-mos-may'sah), Portuguese jurist, born in Estremoz in 1670; died in Coimbra in 1744. He went to Brazil about 1700, and for thirty years held various offices in the courts of justice of that country. He became chief justice of Brazil in 1732, but returned to his native country a few months Before his death His most important work is "Doagoo da Capitania de Porto Seguro em favor de Pedro Tourinho" (Coimbra, 1724). In it the author relates the conditions of the sale of Brazil by the natives to the early Portuguese settlers, and those which Leonor do Campo Tourinho exacted from the Portuguese government, after the death of her father, for her claims to the sites of Rio de Janeiro and other important cities of Brazil.

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