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Dominkovits Péter: Nemesek Szombathely szabadalmas püspöki mezővárosában a 16. század végén, a 17. század elején

have played a more important role in the long-distance intermediate trade than we have expected so far. There was a close trade connection with the dominant route to Graz, which had handled the oxen and leather trade as well, with Nagyszombat and its surrounding market towns as Galgóc, and with Győr, Sopron, Csepreg or to an other direction with Várasd.) Simultaneously the chief town character and the less significant domain centre one of Szombathely had resulted a highly differentiated noble class in property, the members of which lived locally and had houses there. Since several ones of the landowner families in the county possessed tax-free houses in Szombathely (Sibrik and Káldy families) in the same way as the episcopal solicitors, being the leading officials of the estate, had played an especially important role in the legal life of the town. They worked at the court of justice as well (e.g. Kitonich, Gorup). On the account of the above mentioned aspects and of the remarkably significant presence and influence of the Chapter of Vasvár, besides the great number of well-read people, several men of law or men, who had experience in the legal procedure, calling themselves solicitors and were nobles, had been found at the beginning of the 17th century in Szombathely. Representing the parties in court under the auspices of the town magistracy, besides the regional law of practice, they had increased the usage of Werbőczy's Tripartitum and its jurisdiction. 240