Look up: residencia

1. residencia
   In Spanish history, the debriefing of an official after a term of office in the American colonies. The procedure was designed to ensure that officials remained answerable to the crown and carried...
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2. Residencia
   Re`si·den'cia noun [ Spanish ] In Spanish countries, a court or trial held, sometimes as long as six months, by a newly elected official, as the governor of a province, to examine into the conduct of a predecessor.
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3. Residencia
   • (n.) In Spanish countries, a court or trial held, sometimes as long as six months, by a newly elected official, as the governor of a province, to examine into the conduct of a predecessor.
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4. residencia
   in colonial Spanish America, judicial review of an official`s acts, conducted at the conclusion of his term of office. Originating in Castile in the ...
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