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Schriftsässigkeit even schriftsässig (chancellery), the former name of is basic rule (such as estates ) whose owners among the top regional courts as the first instance were in litigation.In contrast to this, there were official villages and manors (officials), which had to recognize the office in whose area they lay as the first instance. Indirect official villages were aristocratic and monastic official villages. The legal status was linked to the property and not to the person of the landlord.

The German legal dictionary explains, "Immediately subordinate to the sovereign" and emphasizes "the privilege of being in writing adheres to land". This term was used as early as 1657. Johann Christoph Adelung defines in his Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect : “Sitting on writing, that is, directly subject to the feudal lord and sovereign and his Kanzelley; office-based, in contrast to the official one. A literate nobleman. Written goods. "

In the Electorate of Saxony , according to Axel Flügel in Bürgerliche Rittergüter , the difference between legal status and official status among manors was characterized by “a different proximity to the sovereign”. This would have had both a legal and a symbolic meaning. The differentiation is due to the development of the constitution of offices that began in the 15th century . Written persons would have been directly subordinate to the upper state authorities. They could have written correspondence with them directly. For the officials, the locally responsible office, headed by a bailiff, was the instance to which they had to turn. The distinction between legal status and official status did not only apply to manors, but also to cities and villages. The fact that they were in writing had also occurred “as a purely personal quality”.

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  1. Main State Archive Dresden: Dominions ( Memento from April 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Written in the German legal dictionary
  3. ^ Johann Christoph Adelung: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect , Volume 3, Sp. 1658, Leipzig 1786 ( digitized in Woerterbuchnetz.de)
  4. Axel wing: Bourgeois manors. Social change and political reform in Electoral Saxony (1680–1844). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000, ISBN 3-525-35681-1 , p. 73. ( digitized version )