Book 9

, title 4 of the _Nueva Recopilación_ deals with "_los officiales de la Contaduria mayor_." _Regni collectio_ would naturally refer to the Castilian law. Possibly, however, the reference is to some collection of laws for the colonies. The _Recopilación de las leyes de Indias_ was not published till 1680; but, according to Antequera (_Hist. de la Legislacion_, p. 564), a previous collection of the colonial laws, down to 1596, was made "_en cuatro tomos impresos_;" also, early in the seventeenth century, "_Se publicó como provisional el libro titulado 'Sumarios de la Recopilación' general de leyes_."--_Munroe Smith_.

[34] _No ymperio, ni mero, ni misto. Imperio mero_ [_i.e.,_ pure authority], the authority that resides in the sovereign, and by his appointment in certain magistrates, to impose penalties on the guilty, with the trying of the cause; _imperio mixto_ [_i.e._, mixed authority], the authority that belongs to judges to decide civil cases, and to carry their sentences into effect. See _Novísimo Diccionario de la Lengua Cast_. (Paris, 1897).

[35] ff = Digest (ff was a Lombard form of D), and the reference is to Justinian's _Digest_,