[45] Paragraphs enclosed in brackets contain brief synopses of the corresponding matter in the text which is purely technical, and not of sufficient special interest to justify giving it so much space in our pages. [46] That is, not subject to the exemptions of the privileged orders.--_H.B. Lathrop_. [47] A receptor is an escribano (clerk, or scrivener) who by special commission or authority from a tribunal proceeds to perform certain judicial functions.--_A.P. Cushing_. [48] Spanish, _en los casas de fuerca hechas por jueces eclesiasticos._ _Fuerza_ is injury committed by an ecclesiastical judge in (1) hearing a case which does not come within his jurisdiction; (2) non-observance of rules of procedure; or (3) unjust refusal to allow an appeal. In such cases the aid of the secular courts may be invoked, by the _recurso de fuerza_; and thus cases were brought before the Audiencia, as above in section 7.--_A.P. Cushing_. [49] In _Recopilacion leyes Indias_ (ed. 1841), lib. i, tit. xx, may be found the royal decrees issued from 1537 to 1640 regarding the operations of the Holy Crusade in the Spanish colonies. [50] A word originating in Hayti, signifying "princes" or "chiefs"--quite naturally extended, by a Spanish clerk or secretary, to the chiefs of Filipino tribes. [51] This is the only case in which the amount of a fee is prescribed in this instrument, except for officials peculiar to the region; the tariff (_arancel_) of Spain is to be followed, as a rule.--_H.B. Lathrop_. [52] This clause forbids the counsel to take a contingent fee.--_H.B. Lathrop_.