„Ratione prioritatis termini" : egy középkori jogi kifejezésről

Abstract

The paper analyses the history and the usage of the legal term prioritás termini. It was used from the 1320's and till the of the XlVth century all the major judges (judge royal, palatine, Slavonian ban etc.) postponed lawsuits because of prioritás termini. In the end of the century the usage of this term was changed. In the XVth century only the authorities of the counties and the ecclesiastical judges used it. It was a special reason for the postponing, only the defendant could use it and only in the first time, when he had to appear in front of the judge. The defendant sent his deputy, who was called assumptor termini. In generál the person of the assumptor termini was not named in the charters, and his only role was to ask and take the new terminus for his principal.