On the lintel of the door of a house occupied today by a wine cellar located at the middle of the principal street remains some inscriptions that time continues to blur. One eye exercised succeeds to detect a date, a cross and scales. Theses graffiti according to the archaeological term are a testimony of an important aspect of the daily life of Ezasques in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: justice.

In Eze, the lord or the duke of Savoy was invested of the low, middle and high justice, each one corresponding to the gravity of the offences. In the facts, the high justice was established by a judge, the middle by a doctor of low and the low by a bailiff.

The high justice dealt mainly with serious offences as crime concerned few of the Ezasques, the middle and the low justice on the other hand worried them more because the payment on the daily conflicts depended from them.

The middle justice was delivered in Eze two times per year in this house. Each year the judge made a session or"parlamentum" during all the business proceedings were heard. Beforehand, the bailiffs had made at the "usual places" of the village, undoubtedly places where one still sees a circle on the ground like on the "Placette", a proclamation by herald and trumpet ordering anybody accused to come and hear their judgements. Theses days could be busy, 53 judgements are pronounced in 1348 and 56 in 1355.

The low justice depended of the bailiff. His nomination for one year, three years from 1775, was an important moment of the year. The bailiff noted the infringements, took care of the application of the laws and judged the small conflicts. He was named by the count on a list, called "the Rose", of three candidates elected by the Council which managed the community. The Council chose them among his members but could also designate somebody who had a house in Eze. He brought then this list to the count who named it. Among the laws which depended on the low justice quote the fines paid for the damages caused by the animals, but also the law of spray which taxed the herds of adjoining city who crossed Eze by raising dust…