Hiteleshelyek, királyi emberek, ügyvédek (2. rész) Csaholyi Péter és Pál supplicatiója a királyi kancelláriához

Absztrakt

This study analyses how the Hungarian justice system functioned in the late Middle Ages. The author primarily aims to answer the question of how complaints were submitted to the royal courts. Was it compulsory to submit them in written form? In which cases might it have been obligatory for the plaintiff to ad-dress the monarch directly, having the complaint drawn up in the form of a supplicatio? The appendix to this article contains a petition addressed to King Wladislaw II by noblemen of the County of Szatmár, requesting that the county magistrates be summoned to appear before the king. Previous research has made it clear that the administration of the royal chancellery and the central courts during the Jagiellonian period was much more formalised and professional than in the earlier decades of the 15th century. Nevertheless, the uniqueness of the petition does not suggest an established practice; rather, it suggests that only complaints belonging to “the king’s most personal jurisdiction” were to be presented to the king in the form of a supplicatio.