LAUSR

Since the middle of the XIVth century, and until the end of the XVIth, the council of Onda was engaged in lawsuits, for jurisdictional reasons, with the Order of Montesa, the owner of the district. The council wanted to belong again to the royal patrimony while the Order was opposed to it. In this article, we gather the information available nowadays about one of the causes of the conflict: the one about the use of places reserved for bulls and pastures of the district, of the privileges granted at several periods and of the regulation that governed its good working. We also include, because of its affinity with the copie, some information about butcher's and trade fairs. This use was the reason for the quarrels between Montesa and Onda in 1437, which ended when the Order sold its right to the inhabitants of the district.