"To receive presents or a bribe, to be guilty of collusion in any
way with a suitor, was punished, in a judge, with death. Who, or
what tribunal, decided as to his guilt, does not appear.
In Tezcuco this was done by the rest of the court. But the king
presided over that body. The Tezcucan prince, Nezahualpilli, who
rarely tempered justice with mercy, put one judge to death for
taking a bribe, and another for determining suits in his own house —
a capital offence, also, by law."