Lesson 12 -- 2024-11-07

A compromise with ecclesiastical jurisdiction: the secular magistrate of Savi all'Eresia. No condemnation by the ecclesiastical Inquisition in Venice is valid unless the Savi have been part of the panel of judges and have approved the sentence. The fourth crusade and territorial acquisitions in the Aegean and Ionian seas. A non-feudal State, as Venice was, faced with the need to organise government of areas within the feudal Empire of Romània. The Venetian "fiefs" are a new form of elective magistrate; powers of government do not imply patrimonial ownership of the fief; succession is also by election. The State as entrepreneur; salterns as a State monopoly; the State shipyard and its organisation. Discipline of the guilds: their existence and rules (capitolari delle arti) are entirely statalised and very fragmented, in order to prevent the economical and political prevalence of the major guilds. The Courts of justice: Curia del Proprio judging usurpi; Curia del Forestier for full legal protection of foreigners; its capitular sets the agreement between the parties as the first source of solution for the case; Curia dell'Esaminador for preventive evaluation of the validity of documents which may be presented as evidence; Curia del Mobile for cases in which the judicial demand of the actor does not go beyond a certain sum of money.