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Catalan Courts

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The Catalan Courts or General Courts of Catalonia (Corts catalanes or Corts general de Catalunya (Catalan); Cortes Generales de Catalu?a (Spanish)) was the policymaking body of Catalonia from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century. The courts were made up of three arms or estates: the military estate which included representatives from the nobility, the ecclesiastical estate which saw representatives from the religious hierarchy and the royal estate which had representatives from the municipalities. The courts were summoned by the king who opened with a royal proclamation while the arms were in charge of legislating, always with the support of the sovereign. If the laws that were approved came from the king they received the name of "Constitutions", if they came from the arms, "Court Chapters". If the king passed a law unilaterally it was called "Acts of Courts" and required ratification by the courts.The General Courts of the Crown of Aragon were held jointly and simultaneously with the Catalan Courts, Valencia Courts and the Principality of Catalonia Courts. The Kingdom of Majorca did not convene Courts and thus sent their representatives to the Courts of the Principality. As the courts could not be held outside of Aragon nor the Principality, they were frequently held in Monz?n or in Fraga, Aragonese towns which lay equidistant between Zaragoza and Barcelona.Unlike the Castile Courts of the time which functioned only as an advisory body to which the king granted privileges and exemptions, the Catalan Courts was a regulatory body, as their decisions had the force of law, in the sense that the king could not unilaterally revoke them.