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 THE MUNICIPAL ORGANIZATION influential patricians, the sentence was expulsion, either in the form of temporary exile, say for "a year and a day," or total banishment for "a hundred years and a day."

To municipal justice, only citizens were subject, besides vagrants who had strayed into the town; but crimes done by noblemen, when the victim was a citizen, could be judged by the municipal court; the sentence in such cases, however, had no legal force till sanctioned by the Castle court. When this limitation was

not observed, the burgomaster and the aldermen who bore the fault, were to lose their heads for it.

The judicial district of Cracow, as said before, did not extend merely to the city, but also to some suburbs, which, however, preserved a sort of independence. The suburb of Stradom was not subjected to Kazimierz jurisdiction till 1419, and even then with some limitations which were not completely abolished till 1505. Other districts, like the suburb of Piasek, preserved part