Definition of "residencia" [‖Re•si•den•cia]

• 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. (noun)

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• "For besides that they are of very small profit to your Majesty, it is certain that if the said notaries were permanent, the said Indians would not dare to bring suits against them at the time of their residencia, which is taken each year when the alcaldes-mayor finish their office."
• "This is a "residencia" (3-4 bedroom house, yard, etc)."
• "a "residencia," a kind of examination well known and constantly practised in Spain, to which Authorities were subject on going out of office -- being of the nature of a general impeachment."