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tecpantlalli.

Headword: 
tecpantlalli.
Principal English Translation: 

"land belonging to the tecpan"

S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), p. 237.

Attestations from sources in English: 

palace land
James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 156.

palace land
Rebecca Horn, Postconquest Coyoacan: Nahua-Spanish Relations in Central Mexico, 1519–1650 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), 156.

palace land
Susan Kellogg, Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500–1700 (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), 226.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Auh ynic ontlamantli yn izquich tecpantlalli yhuan cequi pillalli moch[i] niquinnomaquilia yn nonamic yhuan nochpoch = Los segundo, todas las tierras llamadas tecpantlalli y otras que se nombran pillalli se las doy a mi mujer y a mi hija (San Juan Teotihuacan, 1563)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI, eds., Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 134–135.

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