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papal bulls

n. (plural of papal bull English)

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The failure to back him notwithstanding, the Portuguese crown pressed claims to Columbus's discoveries, which soon led Pope Alexander VI to issue a pair of papal bulls (Inter Caetera and Inter Caetera II) in 1493 that divided the newly discovered and yet-to-be-discovered world between Spain and Portugal.

You see, Judy-Lynn had this little collection of Papal Bulls, named after prominent Popes, and one of them even had an agent, the Scott Meredith Agency.

Not the historical papal bulls that were five hundred years old and stuff like that, but land documents and surveys from the last half century or so.