This section is divided into three subsections:
Crown
Entails were related to the royal institutions of grants and favours (mercê), registration, control, and verification: courts, chancelleries, provedorias, welfare institutions, and document registry institutions.
Church
Secondly, with the ecclesiastical institutions of control and registration, which accepted and regulated the pious obligations: secular and regular bodies and temples, confraternities, and the Roman Curia (through the nunciatures).
Entails
Finally, entails were in themselves norm-producing entities, both internal and relating to external entities; and they produced, managed, and preserved information.
Entails were related to the royal institutions of grants and favours (mercê), registration, control, and verification: courts, chancelleries, provedorias, welfare institutions, and document registry institutions.
Church
Secondly, with the ecclesiastical institutions of control and registration, which accepted and regulated the pious obligations: secular and regular bodies and temples, confraternities, and the Roman Curia (through the nunciatures).
Entails
Finally, entails were in themselves norm-producing entities, both internal and relating to external entities; and they produced, managed, and preserved information.