Note 492 — Chapter VI · MEXICO. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Recop. de las Indias, Lib. I, Tit. xix, ley 29.
The vexatious petty tyranny in which the tribunal indulged is illustrated by the case of a law-student, Diego de Porras Villerías, about 1600, who was fined in 100 pesos and banished for a year because he refused to honor a requisition for two cartloads of lime for the prison which it was constructing.—Medina, p. 137.