Quarantie

The court supême of Quarantie or the Council of the Forty , in Italian Quarantìa , was the legal body of call of the République of Venice.

Founded in 1179, it included/understood in the beginning forty members. This court was duplicated first once in 1441, then one second time in 1491, to form three courts:

  • Quarantie criminal ( Quarantìa Criminale ): criminal court, knowing all the crimes, except crimes of State;
  • the civil Quarantie old woman ( Quarantìa Civil Vecchia ): court of call of the sentences delivered by the magistrates of the city;
  • the civil Quarantie news ( Quarantìa Civil Nuova ): court of call of the sentences of the extra-muros magistrates.

The members of Quarantie were elected for one year by the Grand the Council, and were re-eligible.

The three chiefs of Quarantie sat at the sides of the doge and the six members of the Petit the Council ( Minor Consiglio ) to form what was the top of the State: the Seigniory of Venice ( Serenissima Signoria ). Thus, the confirmation of the Seigniory was necessary to make executive the capital punishments.

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