The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 5 of 55 - 1582-1583 - Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Show by Various
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[46] That is, not subject to the exemptions of the privileged orders.--_H.B. Lathrop_. [47] A receptor is an escribano (clerk, or scrivener) who by special commission or authority from a tribunal proceeds to perform certain judicial functions.--_A.P. Cushing_. [48] Spanish, _en los casas de fuerça hechas por jueces eclesiasticos._ _Fuerza_ is injury committed by an ecclesiastical judge in (1) hearing a case which does not come within his jurisdiction; (2) non-observance of rules of procedure; or (3) unjust refusal to allow an appeal. In such cases the aid of the secular courts may be invoked, by the _recurso de fuerza_; and thus cases were brought before the Audiencia, as above in section 7.--_A.P. Cushing_. [49] In _Recopilación leyes Indias_ (ed. 1841), lib. i, tit. xx, may be found the royal decrees issued from 1537 to 1640 regarding the operations of the Holy Crusade in the Spanish colonies. [50] A word originating in Hayti, signifying "princes" or "chiefs"--quite naturally extended, by a Spanish clerk or secretary, to the chiefs of Filipino tribes. [51] This is the only case in which the amount of a fee is prescribed in this instrument, except for officials peculiar to the region; the tariff (_arancel_) of Spain is to be followed, as a rule.--_H.B. Lathrop_. |
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