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In the case that had erupted between Reginald of Pontibus and his wife, on the one side, and the viscountess of Combornio on the other, concerning an inheritance belonging to the viscountess, the same Reginald and his wife, citing the custom of the [royal] court, refused to respond to her [claim] without the presence of her husband, since she was married. The said viscountess said to the contrary that her claim ought not to be impeded because the inheritance in question belonged to her, and because her husband was so old and weak that he could not come [to court] or ride, as he himself admitted, and especially because she had received the authority to make this plea from her husband. At length, notwithstanding that this [her plea] was against the custom of this court, it nevertheless pleased the king [Louis IX] that Reginald and his wife should respond to the viscountess in the absence of her husband.
Source: Charles Langlois, ed., Textes Relatifs à l'histoire du Parlement depuis les origines jusqu'en 1314 (Paris: Picard, 1888), no. 43, p. 70, citing the Olim, I, 577, no. XVI. Translated from the Latin by Richard Barton.
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