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escritura de venta.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
escritura de venta.
Principal English Translation: 

a notarial document recording a bill of sale; see also our entry for "carta de venta," which had the same meaning)
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
escritura de benta
Attestations from sources in English: 

escritura de Benta año de 1738 (heading) (Azcapotzalco, 1738)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 17.

Ynin esCritura de Benta ticchihua (Azcapotzalco, 1738)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 17.

mota inpan in escritura de benta Oquimochihuililique (Azcapotzalco, 1738)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 17.

escritura de benta (Calimaya, 1763)
Stephanie Wood collection, notes from Nahuatl documents in the file "Bills of Sale," citing AGN (Mexico) Tierras 2546, exp. 10, f. 2r.

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