From 1183 to 1413 it was the gathering place for Danehoffet, which was the country's legislative and judicial assembly.

The system of ad hoc local judicial assemblies becomes unwieldy and a need is felt for standardization.

He began to work with the Canadian Roma as an activist in 1965, through the Kris Romani (Romani internal judicial assembly).

His Decretum Maius of 1486 strengthened the authority of county magistrates by abolishing the palatine's right to convoke judicial assemblies in the counties and by annulling earlier immunities.

The meaning of a judicial assembly is first attested in the 12th century, and derives from the earlier usage to designate a sovereign and his entourage, which met to adjudicate disputes in such an enclosed yard.

During this period Hispalis was the district capital of the Hispalense, one of the four legal convents (Conventi iuridici, judicial assemblies the governors summoned with some frequency in the major cities) of the imperial province of Baetica.

Nominated probably in one of the smaller judicial assemblies, the choice was announced at the great Michaelmas assembly of the whole community, and it is not till the next century that we hear of any attempt of the vulgus to make a different selection from that of the magnates.