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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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