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sooner rather than later, the authoritate of the future convocation would be approved by the iniungimus pp. to our MPs. And the hood of this court decided by us is such a tenor:')
in Wlsnl, June 3, 1632. The Wiszeńsk sejmik establishes a hood court.
1. We dignitaries, officials and all the knights of the Ruthenian Voivodeship at the Wisnin sejmik according to the universal of the IMcł of the Archbishop of Gniezno *) under the interregrum after the death of the late. Mr. King Sigismund the Third, gathered today, i.e. the lands of Lwów, Przemyśl, Sanok with their counties, considering the good and stable safety of our Ruthenian Voivodeship and so that justice could be brought to the wronged as soon as possible and the freedom would be punished even more quickly, we have made such a decision, agreeing to the ancient laws of the hoods. confederation, all kinds of customs and constitutions for all domestic license by our ancestors, they did all of them et rigorem, reassuming them in toto.
2. Since every Republic of Poland is founded on laws and their executions, on which both states stand firm, we, standing by the old laws, with our faith and honesty, promise and vow to keep them in accordance with the bonds of our ancestors.
3. The law is well-provided so that no wrongs may be brought against the privata authoritate, only by the public. Then anyone under this time interregni of wantonness, violence, stupra, raptus, incendia, depopulationes, depraedationes, dispercussiones viarum, rapinas, invasiones domesticas, diffidationes, duella, violentias, homicidia, vulnera et alia in universum quaevis criminalium et causarum facti genera, whose cognitio ex praescripto of our law so sejms, as tribunals and municipal courts, should also make expu]siones \riolentas personis quibusvis, every such person is to be subject to the court of the hood, but only those excesses which would become sub tempus interregni a morte regis usque ad coronationem are to be tried before this court of the hood.
4. The same court will also be responsible for cases for failure to do justice and for bringing to justice all kinds of subjects and unsettled nobility who were arrested for robberies, wounds, murders and other above-mentioned crimina, and all such violators are to be sued under the following title: Nos iudices pallatinatus Russiae vigore confoederationis generalis in conventu yisnensi inter nos conslitutae etc. etc. which lawsuit is to be the seal of the one whom the sealed person will choose as director in each land among themselves by their ordination. A positio duabus septimanis is to anticipate the lawsuit, and the process is to be followed in all these cases. First, there is to be a terminus peremptorius at which the juxta qualitatem excessus is to be received by the plaintiff party, lucrum adiudicationis paenarum legum in confoederationibus et constitutionibus regni descriptarum, which, having received the condemnate, is not to be published and brought to execution, but is to be summoned again ad publicandum decretum for a second term. On which date no other defenses against the accused are to be made, except sola ignorancia, if the party claims it, which is abolished by iurament, in instanti respondere and any pati iudicatum, which is to be in criminalibus cognitio ex scrutiniis et inquiisitionibus. And in such matters, no other dilatations than dilatio scrutinii, and only ad proximum terminum, also dilatio verae infirmitatis in actu personali tantum, are allowed to be
') See No. next. The next number provides the sources from which the above instructions and the hood immediately following were published here. ') Jan Wężyk, archbishop. Gniezno.