The oidores in these audiencias confined themselves to civil suits, but in audiencias where there were no alcaldes del crimen, the oidores were authorized to try both civil and criminal cases.
There had been neither peace nor order; the oidores had quarreled among themselves, and residents were leaving the city as a consequence of this turmoil.
These important reforms grouped these administrative functions about a central head, the superintendent, and lessened the duties of the oidores in these matters, confining the magistrates more particularly to judicial duties.
The judges of residencia, and the oidores making investigations and reviewing cases of residencia were ordered to confine their examinations to "criminal and legal matters and charges which result against those under residencia.
The king inquired of Governor Basco y Vargas why the oidores had not been designated for these duties.
It may be noted that the archbishop exercised complete authority over the audiencia, even to the extent of restoring oidores who had been unlawfully dismissed, and of acting as an intermediary between magistrates.
Oidores Villa and Pavon, removed by Torralba and Bustamante, were restored by the archbishop, and were content to recognize him as president of the audiencia.
See Chapter I, note 20, for distinction between oidores and alcaldes del crimen.
In the same year the Oidores arrived, who were to form the Royal Audience, the President of it being the Governor.
He despatched the oidores Villanueva and Vasco de Puga, to Mexico, with orders to MuA+-oz to give up the government in three hours after he received the royal despatch, and to return immediately to Spain for judgment of his conduct.
But although the principal persons in the viceroyalty, united in the appeal for mercy if not for justice, the inexorable oidores carried out their remorseless and bloody decree.
This revolutionary act was openly countenanced by the Audiencia, the Oidores Aguirre and Bataller, and the body of Spanish traders.
No one seems to have whispered to him even a suspicion of the approaching calamity, until the crafty Palafox assembled the oidores at midnight on the eve of Pentecost, and read to them the royal despatches containing his commission.
The oidores were removed, and others being placed in their posts, the viceroy despatched a missive to the court of Spain containing his views and comments upon the conduct of the late officials.
But all these acts of maladministration were more safely reported to the Spanish court by the nobles and oidores of Mexico, than the despatches of the unfortunate Marques de Falces.
The oidores were banished from the city, and all died in exile in remote portions of the archipelago.
The bodies of two oidores were, on their death and after their burial, disinterred and their bones profaned.
Theoretically, the Audiencia was a limit upon his authority; but in fact the governor was usually the president of this body, and the oidores were frequently his abettors and rarely his opponents.
The oidores and officials who had been placed under arrest by Bustamante were released, and his work overthrown.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oidores" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
