Lesson 17, held on November 24, 2022:

Introduction of a new civil law institute through statutory legislation: venditiones ad usum novum, shortening notification procedures and allowing for State control of the land market in a booming city. Other civil and maritime statutes. Capitulare navium. Election of doge Jacoipo Tiepolo “Scopulo”. Expanded promissio ducis. Updated promissio maleficiorum.Unipersonal, yearly elective magistrate (rector) for the government of Chioggia. Commissione, the capitular of the rector, rewritten year by year with detailed instructions for the current situation. New electoral procedure for Venetian Councils and magistrates; shift toward professional politics. Expansion of the capital city. Developments outside Venice: the Mongol empire; Liber Augustalis of emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen; Liber extravagantium by pope Gregory IX introduces a hierarchical judicial system and an inquisitorial procedure modeled on those of the late ancient Roman cognitio extra ordinem.