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  • Abogado: a lawyer
  • Albacea: an executor of a will
  • Alcabala: sales tax
  • Alcaide: a warden or commander of a fortress
  • Alcalde mayor: a royally appointed official who had administrative and judicial jurisdiction over a community and was subordinate to a governor
  • Alcalde ordinario: a judge who had primary (first instance) jurisdiction
  • Alférez: the person entrusted with a company's banner
  • Alguacil mayor: a royally appointed official who had administrative and judicial jurisdiction over a community or group of communities and was subordinate to a governor
  • Almoneda: a public auction of property, often belonging to a deceased person
  • Aposentador: billeting officer
  • Arras: a gift of a husband to a wife; similar to the dowry
  • Artillero: an artilleryman