The assizes affirm that the king is the only lawgiver in Sicily, that he is both judge and priest (he held the legatine powers from the pope), and all Sicilians were equal and under the same laws, whether Latin, Greek, Jew, or Muslim, Norman, Lombard, or Arab. ###>»=== Principaux textes de lois ===* Le roi est le seul législateur en Sicile, il est aussi bien juge que prêtre (il possédait les pouvoirs de légat pontifical).