It is a story as ancient as it is surreal. Fought to the sound of edicts and closende, of feuds and marquisates, complete with kings and feudal lords. The Sardinian case of Civic Uses is much more than an administrative affair, translated by the Sardinian Region into a modern "edict", signed by the Regional Department of Agriculture, with which, in 2005, the "medieval" bond was reaffirmed on most of the land of at least 160 municipalities in Sardinia. The papers tell of secular, civil and criminal disputes, with disputes not only between individuals, but also between opposing communities over the border land dispute.
Feuds and usurpations
From feuds to the usurpation of those pastures, with the law of the strongest imposing in every way the overbearing and unilateral use of those lands. A de facto indefinite good, belonging to everyone and nobody, most of the time hoarded with good or bad manners. How much this dispute belongs more and more to the Middle Ages can be perceived from the briefs presented against the appeal of the Municipality of Villasimius.
658 years ago
If the municipal administration had retraced the story of those lands starting from the Diploma of 8 November 1504 of the King of Spain up to the present day, the council minority went even further by recalling the act with which the lands of the then Carbonara, the current Villasimius, would have been enfeoffed by Pietro Quarto d'Aragona in favor of Berengario Secondo Carroz on no less than 18 July 1363. The beauty of 658 years ago. One thing is certain: yesterday morning the Sardinian Region did not show up for the appointment with history.
Desertion
The regional administration deserted, without public reason, the first "hearing" of the "trial" initiated by the Municipality of Villasimius against that determination of 24 February 2005 by the Regional Department of Agriculture with which the Civic Uses are reaffirmed in the coastal municipality on hundreds and hundreds of hectares of land. Region, therefore, unjustified absent, it is not known how much by choice or by macroscopic forgetfulness. Judge Paolo Corso, Sardinian Commissioner for Civic Uses, yesterday morning in the offices in via Pessagno, found himself facing only the Municipality of Villasimius, represented by the lawyers Stefano Ballero and Edoardo Spinas and the opposition in the City Council delegated to the lawyer Carlo Augusto Melis. The counter of the Region, on the other hand, is empty. The risk of transforming the dispute into a political battlefield led the magistrate to postpone everything to January 28 next to give the tenants of Viale Trento time to reconsider or to remedy the sensational flaw.
