Its origin is totally unknown to us, although it is most likely an evolution based on previous Andalusian traditions. Some historians such as José Vicente Gómez Bayarri") place its origins in Roman times.[6]​.

We owe the most widespread theory, but without any historical basis, to Francisco Javier Borrull, defended in 1813 before the Cortes of Cádiz to try to save it from its disappearance. His hypothesis is that a precedent already existed in Roman times, but that its foundation as it functions today occurred during the reigns of the caliphs Abd al-Rahman III and al-Hakam II, specifically in the year 960 AD, without clarifying where the aforementioned date comes from. The reason is that it is the only time in which Borrull sees a moment of complete peace on the peninsula, and therefore deduces that the order had to come from some point in the reigns of these two caliphs. In fact, in 1960 the Millennium of the Water Court was celebrated"), promoted by Vicente Giner Boira, legal advisor of the Court at that time, and main defender of this theory in the century. Once the origin of the Court was “established” for Borrull, continuity in feudal times is alleged by the XXXV Charter of King James I the Conqueror, of 1239, by which he orders that the irrigation ditches be governed “segons que antigament és e fo establit e acostumat en temps de sarrahïns”. Furthermore, the Muslim origin has been supported by three details: the fact that it is celebrated every Thursday (the day before Friday, which is a holiday for Muslims); that in many nomadic tribes of North Africa each wise man grants the word to the rest of the indigenous people of his own tribe).

In reality we do not have any document that expressly talks about the Court until the 19th century, which does not mean that it did not exist before. According to the Fueros of Valencia, jurisdiction over irrigation is held by the sequiers of each Community of Irrigators. We know that at the beginning of the century the sequiers of some Irrigation Communities) of the Valencia orchard already summoned those accused on Thursdays in the Plaza de la Seu, but this does not prove the existence of a constituted Court. For Thomas Glick, the origin of the Court would not be due to any king or caliph, but rather it would be an institution of very long evolution. If we do not have documentation about its existence it is because it did not have a legal status, and as a legal institution it did not have any importance, since that the jurisdiction belonged to the sequiers. It seems logical to think that the objective of the joint meeting of the sequiers was not so much the trial itself, as it is done today, but rather the consultation between them as the greatest experts on the reality of the Valencia garden. It is also very likely that the step to convert from a meeting of sequiers into a Court as we understand it today occurred precisely in the same years in which Borrull defended his permanence in the court. the Cortes of Cádiz, with the aim of adapting it to the jurisdiction of the Liberal State.

The description of the functioning of the Court in the century made by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez in his novel La barraca "La barraca (novel)") is interesting.

In 2023 it established the Tribunal de las Aguas Awards, which were presented in a solemn ceremony at the Palau de la Generalidad Valenciana [7]​.

• - Council of Good Men.

• - Common resources.

• - Wikimedia Commons hosts a multimedia category on Valencia Water Court.

• - Vicente Giner Boira Archive (Valencian Library).

Its origin is totally unknown to us, although it is most likely an evolution based on previous Andalusian traditions. Some historians such as José Vicente Gómez Bayarri") place its origins in Roman times.[6]​.

We owe the most widespread theory, but without any historical basis, to Francisco Javier Borrull, defended in 1813 before the Cortes of Cádiz to try to save it from its disappearance. His hypothesis is that a precedent already existed in Roman times, but that its foundation as it functions today occurred during the reigns of the caliphs Abd al-Rahman III and al-Hakam II, specifically in the year 960 AD, without clarifying where the aforementioned date comes from. The reason is that it is the only time in which Borrull sees a moment of complete peace on the peninsula, and therefore deduces that the order had to come from some point in the reigns of these two caliphs. In fact, in 1960 the Millennium of the Water Court was celebrated"), promoted by Vicente Giner Boira, legal advisor of the Court at that time, and main defender of this theory in the century. Once the origin of the Court was “established” for Borrull, continuity in feudal times is alleged by the XXXV Charter of King James I the Conqueror, of 1239, by which he orders that the irrigation ditches be governed “segons que antigament és e fo establit e acostumat en temps de sarrahïns”. Furthermore, the Muslim origin has been supported by three details: the fact that it is celebrated every Thursday (the day before Friday, which is a holiday for Muslims); that in many nomadic tribes of North Africa each wise man grants the word to the rest of the indigenous people of his own tribe).

In reality we do not have any document that expressly talks about the Court until the 19th century, which does not mean that it did not exist before. According to the Fueros of Valencia, jurisdiction over irrigation is held by the sequiers of each Community of Irrigators. We know that at the beginning of the century the sequiers of some Irrigation Communities) of the Valencia orchard already summoned those accused on Thursdays in the Plaza de la Seu, but this does not prove the existence of a constituted Court. For Thomas Glick, the origin of the Court would not be due to any king or caliph, but rather it would be an institution of very long evolution. If we do not have documentation about its existence it is because it did not have a legal status, and as a legal institution it did not have any importance, since that the jurisdiction belonged to the sequiers. It seems logical to think that the objective of the joint meeting of the sequiers was not so much the trial itself, as it is done today, but rather the consultation between them as the greatest experts on the reality of the Valencia garden. It is also very likely that the step to convert from a meeting of sequiers into a Court as we understand it today occurred precisely in the same years in which Borrull defended his permanence in the court. the Cortes of Cádiz, with the aim of adapting it to the jurisdiction of the Liberal State.

The description of the functioning of the Court in the century made by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez in his novel La barraca "La barraca (novel)") is interesting.

In 2023 it established the Tribunal de las Aguas Awards, which were presented in a solemn ceremony at the Palau de la Generalidad Valenciana [7]​.

• - Council of Good Men.

• - Common resources.

• - Wikimedia Commons hosts a multimedia category on Valencia Water Court.

• - Vicente Giner Boira Archive (Valencian Library).