MECHANISMS OF JUDGEMENT IN PROPERTY SUITS IN FERRARA OF THE 14<sup>th</sup> CENTURY
The paper, conducting the research of the documents from archives of St.-Petersburg and Modena, reconstructs course of examination of property suits in the frames of judicial and extrajudicial (datio in solutum) proceedings. A loan agreement, or another broken contract, had been becoming an argument for a lawsuit. The author compares the form of the loan agreement in the 14th century Ferrara with the «sample» of preparation of such documents taken from Summa notariae of Rolandino Pasaggieri, investigates the usus, that is peculiar Ferrara's form of leasehold, and draws the conclusion on a significant contribution of the Italian notariate to development of the law.