Residencia

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Residencia \Re`si*den"cia\, n. [Sp.]
     In Spanish countries, a court or trial held, sometimes as
     long as six months, by a newly elected official, as the
     governor of a province, to examine into the conduct of a
     predecessor.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]