Note 181 — BOOK III.

Equivalent to Abington law; in consequence of which, a criminal is first executed, and then tried. Peralvillo is a village near Ciuidad Real, in Castile, where the officers of the holy brotherhood execute robbers taken in flagrante, who require no trial. Hence the phrase, ‘La justicia de Peralvillo, que aborcado el hombre, le baze la Pesquisa.’ i. e. ‘Peralvillo law, which begins the process after the man is hanged.’