Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
Penas de cámara
English translation:
court fines / court-imposed fines
Spanish term
Penas de cámara
Parte del resumen de un artículo para una revista de Historia.
4 +2 | court fines / court-imposed fines |
Charles Davis
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4 | Chamber penalties |
neilmac
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4 | (Ancient) Exchequer fine/s |
Adrian MM.
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Proposed translations
court fines / court-imposed fines
"Court fine" is the translation suggested in this scholarly work, John Tate Lanning, The Royal Protomedicato: The Regulation of the Medical Professions in the Spanish Empire (1985), p. 390.
https://books.google.es/books?newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&id=411...
"pena de cámara: fine imposed by judges or tribunals allocated to the royal treasury"
https://books.google.es/books?id=lN9ZqALAR68C , p. 390
https://books.google.es/books?id=lN9ZqALAR68C&q="pena de cám...
You could put the Spanish term with a translation like this in parentheses.
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Note added at 4 hrs (2024-08-02 07:41:08 GMT)
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If you'll pardon an irrelevant scatalogical note, I found the following definition while checking cámara in the Diccionario de autoridades (early eighteenth century):
"CAMARA. Se llama tambien el excremento del hombre, cuyo nombre se le debió de dar por que siempre se exonéra el vientre en lugár retirado, y secréto."
You learn something every day.
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Note added at 5 hrs (2024-08-02 07:56:08 GMT)
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I forgot to include the RAE's definition, just for the record:
"penas de cámara
Hist. Prototipo de penas pecuniarias propias de la jurisdicción criminal en el derecho del Antiguo Régimen."
https://dpej.rae.es/lema/penas-de-cámara
Chamber penalties
...for the government, administration and benefit of the effects of chamber penalties...
http://www.duran-subastas.com/en/subasta-lote/instruccion-que-su-magestad-efectos-de-penas/594-3140
(Ancient) Exchequer fine/s
> pena pecuniaria : ticket; fine (West).
As Charles D. posits, postulates and propositions, it's a judicial imposition, so methinks on the borderline of a criminal fine and contractual penalty, a 'fixed-notice penalty' for motoring offenc/ses in the UK thus arguably a long-standing and institutionalis/zed misnomer.
Court of Exchequer to capture the true historical flavo(u)r.
Se entiende por penas de Cámara lo que se recauda por multas y condenaciones pecuniarias impuestas por los tribunales, juzgados de primera instancia, alcaldes y ayuntamientos.
The Court of Exchequer emerged during the medieval period as one of the three main central courts in London. It was originally a common law court but by the mid-16th century it was developing an equity jurisdiction.
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