Audiencias

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of Audiencia.
  Audiencia

  noun

  Also, audiencia, historically, in monarchic Spain or its colonies, a court with legislative and executive as well as judicial functions, or the jurisdiction of such a court.

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Audiencias

The principal courts of justice were the Audiencias reales, or Royal Audiences.

From Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California by Brantz Mayer

Judicial powers were accorded to the Alcaldes Mayors, to the Captains, Lieutenant Governors, Governors, Captains-General, Audiencias, in some cases to juntas, and even to naval officers.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

The Audiencias of Panamá and Guatemala.—Alvarado served as governor and captain-general of Guatemala through appointment by Cortés till 1528, when he was commissioned directly by the emperor.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

Thus, swelling by cumulative degrees of impressiveness, Trooper Driscoll came at last into the Sala de Audiencias, and gazed with admiration at its beautiful Gobelin suite.

From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

In the great capital cities sat bodies of high judicial and executive officials known as Audiencias.

From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson

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