Real Audiencia
Appellate court within Spain and its empire / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the modern court, see Audience Nacional of Spain.
A Real Audience (Spanish pronunciation: [reˈal awˈðjenθja]), or simply an Audience (Catalan: Reial Audience, Audience Reial, or Audience), was an appellate court in Spain and its empire. The name of the institution literally translates as Royal Audience.[1] The additional designation chancillería (or cancillería, Catalan: cancelleria, English: chancellery[2]) was applied to the appellate courts in early modern Spain.[3] Each audiencia had oidores (Spanish: judges, literally, "hearers").