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Spanish colonial justice

In audiencia
…in civil cases were called oidores and, for criminal cases, alcaldes de crimen. The presiding officer of the audiencia was called gobernador, or regente. From the reign of Philip II (1556–98), the decisions of audiencias were final, except when the death penalty was decreed or in civil cases when the…
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