[26] Recopilación, 1–10–10; 2–15–136.

[27] Alzar or quitar la fuerza was the act on the part of a royal tribunal of abrogating, annulling, or reforming the effects of violence committed by an ecclesiastical judge.—Escriche, Diccionario, I, 839.

[28] Recopilación, 2–15–134, 135.

[29] Ibid., 2–15–143.

[30] Ibid., 144.

[31] Ibid., 152 and 142.

[32] Ibid., 2–2–4.

[33] Escriche, Diccionario, I, 712.

[34] Recopilación, 2–15–148: See expediente on affairs in the Philippines, 1690, A. I., 67–6–3.

[35] Ibid., 1–7–47.