 During the reign of Sigismund I, "szlachta" in the lower chamber of general sejm (from 1493 a bicameral legislative body), initially decidedly outnumbered by their more privileged colleagues from the senate (which is what the appointed for life prelates and barons of the royal council were being called now), acquired a more numerous and fully elected representation.Sigismund however preferred to rule with the help of the magnates, pushing "szlachta" into the "opposition".After the "Nihil novi" act of 1505, a collection of laws known as Łaski's Statutes was published in 1506 and distributed to Polish courts.