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              MT NAM LCM-186-28 · Item · 12/02/1666
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Don Nicolaus Barbara seeks to enforce a deadline on Joannella, widow of the late Domenico de Lorenzo, by when she is to declared whether or not she intends to accept the inheritance of the deceased with all related income and obligations.

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              MT NAM LCM-186-37 · Item · 27/05/1664
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Lazzaro Zammit from Zurrieq reports that he found his wife and her relative Maria at home in great distress, and they reported that the same Maria had been violently raped in her house by Giovanni Maria Azzopardi, known as "Burasca".

              [Pro Domenicus Mangion]
              MT NAM LCM-140-1 · Item · 13/10/1616
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Domenicus Mangion claims that the evidence brought againts him in court by Valerio Seychel is insufficient for the sentence pronounced against him and appeals. From this document it appears that the Curia Capitanalis could also function as its own first court of appeals.

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              MT NAM LCM-140-4 · Item · 19/02/1640
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Thomas Cutajar from Siggiewi, and servant of the same village's captain, accuses Martinus Imbrol from Siggiewi. Cutajar had approached Imbrol at the tavern of Mario Mallia in Siggiewi and told him to go deposit the money owed with the village Captain or he would have had him imbrisoned as a debtor. At which point Imbrol stabbed him with a knife (stilletto). Witness statements collected. Imbrol sentenced to two years' rowing on the galleys of the Order with no payment and with bound feet. The case was then appealed to the Suprema Curia Appellationis (ACA) but the sentence was upheld.

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              MT NAM LCM-140-6 · Item · 23/03/1640
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Natale Barbara from Qrendi accuses Bernardino Mallia, from Qrendi, and Benedetto Zammit from Mqabba of deceit. Zammit implicated Barbara in a false contract of sale of immovable property to Mallia in the acts of Notary Johannes Petrus Attard (18/09/1639). The notary was then prosecuted for negligence and of breaching the terms of expected conduct for a notary. The land involved was called Il Ginen and was in Qrendi. Bernardino was sentenced to ten years' rowing in chains and against no remuneration on the galleys of the Order for 10 years, Benedetto for seven. The notary was fined 20 uncia. The case was appealed to the ACA by the Notary who claimed that he had been himself deceived due to his old age. The fine was reduced to 12 uncia.

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              [Pro Vincentio Fenech]
              MT NAM LCM-140-32 · Item · 30/05/1640
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Half-document. Interrogation of witnesses to confirm that Vincentius Fenech known as Chammuna had brought cheese to Johannes Maria Micallef

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              [De Edictis Lascaris]
              MT NAM LCM-140-42 · Item
              Part of Law Courts Miscellaneous

              Excerpt concerning edicts of Lascaris concerning the replacement of judges due to conflicts of interest, followed by an excerpt of an unidentified origin concerning Maltese history.

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