ABSTRACT
The study focuses on the role of the Council of the Hundred in the judicial activity of Cluj during the time of the Transylvanian Principality. The utilized primary sources—town protocols and tax registers—diverge from existing scholarship and show that in certain cases, despite the regulations, the Council of the Hundred did supervise judicial cases which involved other officeholders. Moreover, the centumvirate could overrule previous judges with the aim of preserving the privileges that granted free judicial practice to the town and preventing the interference of other municipalities. There was no conflict between the centumviri and the inner council, but rather a cooperation between the two governing bodies in order to conserve the town’s self-governance and independent judicial control.
