Pita (Dr Pedro Góis)
Original title: Pita (Dr. Pedro Góis)
Biography of Pedro Góis Pita (born 1891), a Funchal-born lawyer, land registrar, deputy for Madeira and minister of Commerce and Labour, and author of legal works including one on the Madeiran colonia contract.
He was born in Funchal on 26 May 1891, the son of António Félix Pita and Dona Maria da Conceição Góis Pita. He graduated as a bachelor (bacharel, university graduate) in law from the University of Coimbra (Universidade de Coimbra). After practising as a lawyer in Ponta do Sol (‘point of the sun’) and in this city, where he also held the post of notary, he was appointed land registrar (conservador do registo predial) of one of the judicial districts of Lisbon, where he likewise devotes himself to life at the bar. As a deputy, he represented Madeira in Parliament in the legislatures of 1919-1921 and 1921, and he was again elected deputy for this archipelago in January 1922.
He is an officer of the Orders of St James and of Christ, has contributed to various newspapers and was one of the founders and editors of the Revista de Direito (‘Law Review’) in this city. In Funchal he published a pamphlet entitled A Expropriação do Montado do Barreiro..., and in Coimbra the volume Pratica d'Advocacia, with a preface by Dr José Alberto dos Reis (1921).
He was Minister of Commerce and Labour, is a full member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Academia das Ciências de Lisboa) and has published various legal and literary works, among which we may list the following: Estudos de Direito, Na Vida do Fôro, Comentarios ao Codigo do Registo Predial, Novo Codigo do Registo Predial Anotado, O Direito na Pratica, O Contrato de Colonia na Madeira, A Demencia and Gente que passa.
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Abroad
- Coimbra
Portugal. University where Pita took his law degree and where he published a book.
Portuguese mainland university city where many Madeirans studied law or medicine, and where Padre Luís Gonçalves da Câmara taught and was rector of the Jesuit college. It hosted the 1921 academic table-tennis championship, and its dormancy and rainfall data are compared with Funchal's.
- Funchal
Birthplace of Pita, where he practised law and was a notary.
The capital of the archipelago and seat of the principal captaincy, where settlement began; it was made a vila c.1451–52. Its bay, the widest in the archipelago, lies between Ponta do Garajau and Ponta da Cruz and offers sheltered anchorage, though its harbour had never been studied oceanographically. The Elucidário discusses it as a health resort with climate data and records the January 1906 disturbances, the Danish prince's visit in May 1846 and recent volcanic cones in the area.
- Lisbon
Portugal. Where Pita became land registrar of a judicial district.
The Portuguese capital, seat of the Relação court and of the Misericórdia whose privileges and statutes were extended to Funchal. Henrique Franco de Sousa studied at its Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and Luiz José Baiardo moved there in 1821.
- Montado do Barreiro
Funchal. Upland land whose expropriation was the subject of a pamphlet by Pita.
Upland wooded and pasture tract above Funchal, rich in springs that feed several levadas and the Tornos springs used for the city's water supply. It was expropriated by the Funchal council in 1917, and the resulting lawsuit prompted pamphlets by Pedro Góis Pita and Juvenal Henriques de Araújo.
- Ponta do Sol
Where Pita first practised as a lawyer.
South-coast parish and municipality, settled from about 1440 by Rodrigo Enes 'o Coxo'. Its parish church of Nossa Senhora da Luz holds a triptych. The Elucidário also records its quay of 1848, paid for by the council, and the royal visit of 1858.
People
People mentioned · 04- Pedro Góis Pitab. 1891
Funchal-born lawyer, deputy for Madeira and minister of Commerce and Labour; subject of this entry.
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Father of Pedro Góis Pita.
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Jurist who wrote the preface to Pita's 'Pratica d'Advocacia' (1921).
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Mother of Pedro Góis Pita.