Memorial, recording a court case between the monastery of Valldigna and the heirs of Johan de Bellvís over the village of Resalany and the castle of Rugat.
Acephalous roll, four sheets (of original five?) sewn together with parchment strips and now substituted with twine. Latin (first sheet and start of second) and Catalan (remainder of document).
The first panel describing the circumstances of the case is missing, but the subsequent panels detail the legal procedures that the "arbitratores et amicabiles compositores"
(arbitrators and friendly mediators) followed to settle the land dispute over the village of Resalany between Pere de Montagut, Vidal de Vilanova, and the monks of Valldigna.
Johan de Bellvís stated in his will that he had given the village of Resalany to the monks of Valdigna, who had given him Rugat in return (See Steiner 1 [1354]).
Pere de Vilanova, father of Vidal de Vilanova, stood as guarantor for the exchange. But Pere de Montagut also claimed that Resalany belonged to him, and won it back from the monks.
The monks in turn demanded compensation from the executors of Johan de Bellvís and from Vidal de Vilanova, son of Pere. Vidal de Vilanova then sued the heirs of Johan de Bellvís,
in a case that was heard in Valencia in 1396. After sorting out the tangle of evidence, the judges decided that the monks owed nothing to the executors of Johan de Bellvís or to
Vidal de Vilanova, and they ordered the heirs of Johan de Bellvís to compensate the monks for damages and lost income. The heirs also had to compensate Vidal de Vilanova.
In turn, the judges confirmed the monastery's repossession of the castle of Rugat, which remained part of Valldigna's holdings until 1835.