danish courts of appeal judge. However, even in the sixteenth century the system did not seem to be so firmly established that it was known and accepted, or at least followed, by everyone. Time after time it was necessary to reiterate the sequence of courts in royal memoranda and to repeat the proclamation of time and place for court sessions. This uncertain situation finally ended after the introduction of absolutism in 1660 and especially following the Danish Code’s harmonization of the legal matters of the Kingdom in 1683: From now on a case could be raised in first instance at the local peculiar court, the district court or the town court and appealed to the provincial court as second instance, or it could be raised at the provincial court – from 1810 named High Court –using the Supreme Court as second instance. Thus, it took a long time, but the result was more or less the same as in the rest of Europe. 274
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