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King Stephen Báthory performs a transumpt and confirmation of sixteen decrees from 1578 issued in disputes between the council and the commonalty of Lwów and the Lwów Starosta, Mikołaj Herburt of Fulsztyn. The document resolves, among other things, issues of the election of councilors, municipal and castle jurisdiction, keys to the gates, billeting, tax obligations, and the use of mills.

King Stephen Báthory resolves a dispute between the nobility of the Ruthenian Voivodeship and the magistrate of Lwów, annulling the incorporation of the suburban villages of Zubrza and Sichów into the Magdeburg law and subjecting disputes regarding their lands and military obligations to the land law (ius terrestre). Simultaneously, the monarch confirms the jurisdiction of municipal law and the royal court over the burghers, municipal officials, and their urban properties.

King Sigismund I the Old, at the general sejm in Kraków, approves and recognizes as inviolable the privilege granting the city of Lwów the villages of Zubrza and Sichów. The document secures the possession of these estates by the municipal authorities in the face of the execution of a statute prohibiting burghers from owning landed estates.

The Lviv land judge Gunter of Sieniawa and the sub-judge Jan of Wyszebice certify that Zofia, daughter of Jan Zubrski and wife of Jan Knat, sold her hereditary part in Zubra and half of the village of Sykhiv to Jan, the village head of Sokolnyky, for the sum of 250 grzywnas. The seller renounced all rights to these estates, admitted the buyer to the investiture, and committed to the legal defense of the transaction.

Gunter of Sieniawa, Lviv land judge, and Jan of Wysokie, sub-judge, certify the perpetual division of estates, including those in Sichów and Żyrawka, between sisters Katarzyna and Zofia, heiresses of Zubrza. The agreement regulates the division of hides, peasants, mills, ponds, and inns.

Jan of Obiechów, General Starosta of Ruthenia, certifies the sale of the hereditary village of Sichów by Piotr of Charbinowice, Deputy Cupbearer of Sandomierz, to Jan of Zubrza for the sum of 130 'kopa' of white groschen. The buyer receives the village with all appurtenances and rights for perpetual possession.

Florian of Korytnica, Starosta of the Ruthenian land, certifies that Jan Szychowski, together with his wife Ofanna, sold the village of Sichów in the Lwów district to Piotr of Charbinowice for 50 kopa of groschen. The buyer received full rights of ownership and disposal of this property.