195. [No gifts may be accepted. Penalty: double the amount to the exchequer, condemnation as forsworn, and loss of office.]
Assigners of cases
203. [Fees of the official who distributes the cases [repartidor] among the clerks are to be two tomines for each case,[1] except from poor suitors and others exempt.]
Taxing of fees and costs
204. [Records of cases transferred to the council of the Yndias are to have their fees taxed by a special officer.]
205. [In case of complaint against the taxation, the auditor for the week shall decide.]
Advocates
206-214. [These sections give minute directions as to procedure, fixing the time and manner in which documents are to be presented, filed, and demanded, regulating the manner of taxing advocates' fees, and enumerating certain duties of advocates in the conduct of their cases.]
215. Counsel shall swear that they will not give their assistance in unjust causes, or counsel the parties to injustice; and that as soon as they discover that their client is not suing for justice they will abandon the case. If it shall happen that through the negligence or ignorance of the counsel, deducible from the record, the party whom he assists shall lose his right, we command that the said counsel be held to
- ↑ 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.
