Real Audiencia

A Real Audience (Spanish pronunciation: [reˈal awˈðjenθja]), or simply an Audience (Catalan: Reial Audience, Audience Reial, or Audience), was an appellate court in Spain and its empire. The name of the institution literally translates as Royal Audience.^[1] The additional designation chancillería (or cancillería, Catalan: cancelleria, English: chancellery^[2]) was applied to the appellate courts in early modern Spain.^[3] Each audiencia had oidores (Spanish: judges, literally, "hearers").