The Audiencia Real, also known as Real Audiencia, or simply Audiencia (Catalan: Reial Audiència, Audiència Reial, or Audiència), was a appellate court in Spain and its empire. The name of the institution has been sometimes translated as Royal Audience. The additional designation chancillería (or cancillería, Catalan: cancelleria) was applied to the appellate courts in early modern Spain. Each audiencia had oidores (Spanish: judges, literally, "hearers").
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