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The Judge in the Seventeenth century: a royal official between legislation, doctrine and case law: the Sicilian case

2013

Like all the others territorial-political systems in Europe, even Siciliy is characterized by the presence of royal Courts of Appeal, institutions that a consolidated – even if outdated – legal-historical tradition brought together under the generic name of “Grandi Corti” (Great Courts) or “Tribunali Supremi “ (Supreme Courts). It is known that the definition of “Grande Tribunale” can be related to the Suprem Court of every state-organization of the Modern Age; a high court composed only by the choicest jurists, personally appointed by the sovereign, with exclusive competence on a number of subjects (above all crimen lesae maiestatis) and competence of appeal on any sentence emitted by lowe…