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The Supreme Court came into being in 1578. The task of the court was considering the appeals from sentences passed by the lower instance. There were 27 secular judges and 6 church representatives in the court. The same amount of clergymen and secular judges reargued a case in which one of the sides was a person or an institution connected with the church. However from the very beginning parliament members spirituals had more power than they were expected to have according to the law: they took part in the election of the chairman – marshal − as well as reconsidered the cases not connected with the church, together with the secular judges, although they shouldn’t. Some nobleman did not approve that over-participation of clergyman. Therefore there was a serious dispute between the supporters and the opponents of such a strong position of clergyman in the Supreme Court. Finally, the clergymen’s influence on the court's work was diminished. It was a result of the reforms of 18th century.
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