Hatalmi konfliktus vagy testületi összefogás? A kolozsvári százférfiak tanácsa és a városi igazságszolgáltatás a 16. század második felében
Conflict of Power or Corporative Bond? The Assembly of the Centumviri and the Jurisdiction of Cluj in the Second Half of the 16th Century

Summary/Abstract: The study focuses on the role of the council of the hundred – the principal legislating and governmental forum of the city – in the judicial activity of Kolozsvár/Cluj during the time of the Transylvanian Principality. Previous research has shown that judicial cases were solved mainly by the fi rst judge (iudex primarius) and the inner council (the 12 councillors), the assembly of the centumviri beared marely a legislative and a supervising role in the process. Our primary sources – mainly the town protocols and the tax registers – provide information that in certain cases, in spite of the regulations, the assembly of the hundred did supervise the judicial cases in which magistrates/offi ce-holders were implicated, moreover the council of the hundred could even change the sentences. In such cases, the aim of the assembly that took over the judicial control in the town, was to try to conserve the privileges that granted the free judicial practice of the town and to prevent the interference of other municipalities at the same time. Thus, this cannot be interpreted as a confl ict between the assembly of the centumviri and the inner council, rather as a co-operation between them in order to conserve the self-government and the independent judicial control of the town.

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