In modern times, a letrado is a Castilian jurist. He obtained a bachelor's degree or a doctorate in law from universities or colegios mayores and practices in royal institutions. The letrados are sometimes lawyers, judges, prosecutors, representatives or advisers of the Crown. From the reign of the Catholic Kings, they appear more and more in the service of the king and form a rising class often from the bourgeoisie. Etymology change the code
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