Ítélőmesteri jegyzetek és perfolyam a fejedelmi táblán a 16. század második felében
Protonotarial Notes and Litigation at the Transylvanian Princely Table in the Second Half of the 16th Century

Summary/Abstract: Those interested in the judicial system of Early Modern Transylvania can only rely on a limited scope of sources when analyzing the characteristics of a certain period. In order to understand the functioning of the so-called high (curial) courts, the notes made by the protonotaries at the back of the documents are therefore also necessary to study, besides the charters they issued and the formulary books they composed. The main aim of this study is to present and analyze these signaturae or notes that appear on the dorse of charters and give us important clues with regard to the stages of the litigation. From these, we could conclude that no kinds of minutes or records (registrum) were kept during the functioning of the Princely Table in the second half of the 16th century). The stages of a lawsuit were noted by the protonotaries at the back of the mandates (mandatum) and sentences (litterae iudiciariae) and the letters of judgment were issued using those notes.

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