highest court where nobles and most serious crimes were judged
in teccalli, in vncan iezque, in vncã tetlatzontequjlizque in vncan qujcaqujzque in jxqujch tlamãtli tlacatlatolli, in centetl teccalli, itoca tlacxitlan, in vncã tetlatzontequjliaia tlaçopipilti, tlatocapipilti = the Teccalli, where they were to remain, to make judgments, and to hear all manner of testimony. The name of one Teccalli was Tlacxitlan. There they tried princes and great lords. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Tlacxitlan, vncan catca tlatoque tlaçopipilti, tecutlatoque: in jxqujch tlamantli in jneteilhujl cujtlapilli atlapalli maçeoalli: vnca qujcaqujliaia, vncan qujtlatzontequjliaia; ioan ixqujch tlamantli mjqujztli vncan qujtzontequja aço aca quimecanjzque, anoço aca qujtetepachozque, anoço aca quauhtica mjqujz qujujujtequjzque, anoço aca pilli, anoço tecutlato, ximaloz, totocoz, callaliloz, maceoalcuepaloz, anoço aca ilpiloz quauhcalco tlaliloz: = Tlacxitlan: there were the rulers, the princes, and the high judges. All the complaints of the lower classes and common folk they there heard and judged. And all death [sentences] they there meted out; either they would strangle one with a cord, or stone him to death, or slay him under wooden staves, beaten; or some nobleman or judge was to be shaven [as a disgrace], or driven [out of the land], or confined, or made a commoner; or one would be seized and jailed in a wooden cage (central Mexico, sixteenth century)