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CHAPTER THREE
party to pay to my party for herself and as guardian for her said children the maravedís of the said sale and more the real value of the said goods and the improvements and works that have been realised in them after their being bought | by my said party and her husband, added to that the costs, interests and damages to the extent that my party has suffered from them and will suffer because of not having delivered her a sure title of and free the said goods, for which said reason I demand justice to be done'.226
One view adhered to by some medieval ius commune-scholars was that only a knowing seller was liable and then for no more than a price reduction. María López, however, demands compensation for all damages. As the Royal Chancery refuted this claim in first instance and only granted repayment of the price and compensation for improvements,227 López tried again in appeal. Again she demanded the Royal Chancery to condemn her opponent to compensating her for all damages which were the result of Mesonery and Sánchez' selling the immovables free from encumbrances, while they were not. López expressed her discontent about the first verdict through the mouth of her lawyer Ruiz de Carrión in the following manner:
'I say that with regard to the sentence given by you, oydores, for as far as it is in favour of my party I wil not demand anything = but this is different with regard to not having condemned the other party for the damages and costs which my party has incurred for not having delivered and ensured title of the part of the houses which are the objects of this case'.228
Her claim was accordingly:
'that they pay to my party the maravedís which she gave for the said houses with the interest and damages and costs and the 71.000 maravedís spent on the said improvements...'229
Thus, besides her claim for improvements, López thought she had a right to more than
226 Pl. civ., F. Alonso (f.), caja 128, 4 (1586/87), sc. 2 (petition of María López de Albarado): 'y ser ansi que abiendo bendido a mi | parte y al dicho su marido los dichos bienes por libres de censo | y tributo y binculo an parezido serbiendo de binculo y | ad ybersario y ansi lo an declarado las mysmas partes | contarias/por lo qual avala suplico mandedar | por ninguna la dicha venta y que las partes contrarias paguen a my | parte por sy e como curadora de los dichos sus hijos | los maravedís de la dicha benta y mas el berdadero valor | de los dichos vienes y el de los mejoramientos y hedeficios | que sean hecho en ellos despues que los compraron | la dicha mi parte y su marido con mas los daños ynter- | eses y menoscabos y astas que a my parte se le an | segydo y siguieren por no aber le salido ciertos y sanos | los dichos vienes para lo qual dicho pido justicia...'.
227 Pl. civ., F. Alonso (f.), caja 128, 4 (1588), sc. 16. In this case the judgment in first instance was also given by the Royal Chancery, as it probably concerned a case between persons of noble origins (hidalgo). For these noblemen the Royal Chancery was both court of first intance as well as court of appeal. See Mendizabal, Investigaciones, p. 35.
228 Pl. civ., F. Alonso (f.), caja 128, 4 (1586/87), sc. 19 (appeal of Maria López de Albarado): 'digo que de la sentencia dada por vuestros | oydores en lo que es en favor de mis partes no suplico = pero otro si en no aber condenado a las partes contrarias | en los danos y costas que a mi parte se le an seguido | por no aber salido y ciertado la parte de casas sobre | que es este pleito'.
229 Pl. civ., F. Alonso (f.), caja 128, 4 (1586/87), sc. 20 (appeal of Maria López de Albarado): 'que paguen a mi parte las maravedís que | dieron por las dichas casas con yntereses e danos y costas | y con los setenta y un mill maravedís de los dichos mejo- | ramientos...'.
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