Lesson 14, held on November 11, 2022:

Institution of Curiae Palatii for the relief of the Councils from judgments in civil and criminal matters. Curia ducis, later Curia Proprii, for general cases, especially about proprietates (land rights within the territory). Curia Forinsecorum gives full legal protection to foreigners; application of forma pactorum as the first source for the solution of the case. Curia Examinatoris for delibation of documents which may be given as evidence in a case (contracts, last wills, minutes of procedures performed by comandadori, i.e. bailiffs, etc.). Curia Procuratoris for litigation arising from successions, commissarìe and questions of personal status within the attributions of the Procurators of Saint Mark, e.g. legitimacy of a son or daughter. Curia Petitionis as a means to complete the law system by decisions per iustitiam, laudum et arbitrium, without recourse to general, abstract legislation (too time-consuming) or to Roman ius commune (a foreign body of law, managed by legal experts whose monopoly on that know-how threatens to turn into lobbying). The Venetian law system as remedial, not substantive. Accusatory trials, not inquisitorial. Justice as balance of the interests of both parties as well as that of the Commune. The magistrature of the Advocatores Curiarum to give legal counsel to the parties.