Manuel introduced a system to avoid delays to the courts caused by saints' days & holidays

Summary:
 
Dates:
1166 March 
Emperor Manuel I Komnenos (Manuel 1)
  • Legal delays through holidays and saints-days were becoming intolerable, with litigants growing old or dying without a verdict; he introduced a system which had courts open in the afternoon on some saints-days (:) Kinnamos 276.15-277.7