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| | Chapter 2: The Royal Treasure |
 | | The Christian universitas, the corporate municipal body, was even more important under the Crown of Aragon than in most medieval states. |
 | | In fact, the very persons of the leaders of the aljama were by universal assent of the Christian populace subject to arbitrary seizure by the king or his officials, and, for any of hundreds of offenses against laws regularly invoked, to being sold as slaves. |
 | | E.g., in the case of Aranda in 1360, where the "justicia, jurati, et mostaçafus universitas christianorum" tried to wrest this right from the aljama, though the latter had enjoyed it "a tanto citra tempore quod memoria hominum in contrarium non existit." The king upheld the aljama: C 699:202 (Mar.25,1360). |
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