Book 7, folio 252. The first instance of litigation that I find was_The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

for the year 620, when the auditor of accounts claimed that the royal

officials ought to deliver to him, not only the books and papers

that he asked, but also the account in orderly form, in order that

he might audit their general account of the preceding year. The royal

officials answered thereto that they had never rendered that account,

and that they were not bound to do so, but only to deliver to him the

books and papers necessary for the verification [of accounts]. The

tribunal decided in favor of the royal officials.

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