Victor Amadeus II is generally recognized by historiography as the initiator of a major administrative and judicial reorganization, begun after the Peace of Utrecht and the conclusion of the War of the Spanish Succession. This has been a long and complex process, which also led to the issuing of a new body of laws: the Leggi e Costituzioni di Sua Maestà il Re di Sardegna of 1723. Victor Amadeus II’s action also involved the Savoy judicial system. Recent studies have analysed the reforms carried out by this sovereign during his long reign on the most important existing magistracies in the Kingdom of Sardinia (the Senates and the Camera dei Conti). This article aims to examine one of the most critical episodes in the institutional and legal history of Savoy, namely the conflict between 1722 and 1723 between Victor Amadeus II and the Senate of Piedmont.This clash led to the replacement of a significant number of Turin senators including President Paolo Francesco Leone. The king came into conflict with his Senate due to the acquittal that this magistrate gave to Carlo Lorenzo Revello, a country guard who was caught armed near Mondovì. In fact, an edict of 1699 punished the conduct of carrying weapons in those places with the death penalty. The Senate, however, ignored the king’s rule and did not condemn Revello: according to the judge’s reasoning, Revello exercised a profession that made it necessary to carry arms. Thus, a close correspondence between the Senate of Turin and the king began: on the one hand, the sovereign insisted on the application of his edict of 1699, on the other, the judiciary of Turin upheld Revello’s innocence and good faith.The issues that were at the basis of this institutional dispute were two. One of a legal nature and one of a more political nature. The legal one contrasted two opposing views of law: on the one hand the Senate, in favour of the use of equity in the application of law, and on the other the king interested in imposing his will without further discussion. In practice, we ...