mixed legal systems – kjell å. modéer 411 There is an interesting parallel between the general development of the judicial revolution in Sweden and those special jurisdictions for the king’s civil and military servants. Those special jurisdictions were also profession-alized with jurists who not only prepared the criminal trials but also had a strong and important position during the court sessions. The Judge Advocate, theauditör, was introduced as a legal professional in the military court organization from the beginning of the seventeenth century, and was instrumental in the professionalization of those special courts. The professional jurists in the military court systemwere integrated into the whole career system within the legal suum cuique paradigm. A trained jurist in the seventeenth century could advance through and between the various jurisdictions during his career as if they were located in a transparent system.1171 Interestingly enough, the normal career of a Swedish judge was not necessarily hierarchical. Vertical internal careers within the system were of course common – but there was also to a great extent a more horizontal career, in which a judge could jump between the different court-systems. He could, for example, start as an Advocate judge at a martial court, then be recruited as an assessor at the Board of Commerce, then apply to be a vice president at another government Board and end up as a President of a Court of Appeal. There was great mobility of the judiciaries within the whole court-organization in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Mia Korpiola underlines the position of Svea Court of appeal as the King’s court with roots far back to medieval times in her articles. Some articles in this volume discuss this function of the court. Themedieval roots can be observed from the point of view of thecrimen læsæmaiestatis, the criminal cases against the king, his family and his councillors. As Per Nilsén points out in his article on cases of slander, the Svea Court of Appeal, as a result of the 1615 Procedural Rules for the Court of Appeal, article 20:2, was responsible for the adjudication of all these 1171 Modéer, Kjell Å. 1992 p. 23 ff. The Svea Court of Appeal as the King’s Court and a Feudal forum privilegiatum
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