Note 127 — Chapter II · THE ORIGIN OF THE FLORENTINE COMMUNE.82
Linda Villari translation
On April 18, 1201—there being then a Potestà—we only find "Gerardus ordinarium iudex cognitor controversiae ... hanc sententiam tuli ideoque subscripsi," without a Consul of justice, who reappears soon afterwards (Santini, pt. ii. doc. xi.). It would seem that at Pisa it was the rule to nominate special judges, electi, or dati a Consulibus et universo populo, who pronounced judgment on their own account, sometimes in the presence of the Consuls. Elsewhere we find Consules de placitis, or Assessores Consulum (as at Parma, for instance), who pronounced judgment without the intervention of the Consuls of the Commune (Ficker, iii. pars. 584 and 585).