But when mistake or flattery prevailed with weak princes to make use of this power for private ends of their own, and not for the public good, the people were fain by express laws to get prerogative determined in those points wherein they found disadvantage from it:
Printze ahulen hutsek eta koipekeriak, ordea, interes propioak eta gertuan zituen pertsonenak mesedetzera bultzatu zituenean, eta ez guztion interesak, orduan prerrogatiba desegoki zirudien puntu horietan argitasunez definitzeko nahia sortu zen herriarengan.