Appeal Court Trier
The Trier Court of Appeal was the highest court of the Left Bank of the Rhine annexed by France from 1799 to 1814, with its seat in Trier .
Court of Appeal Trier
The court organization of the Left Bank of the Rhine from 1798 did not provide for a court of appeal. A tribunal of first instance had been set up at the level of the four departments on the Left Bank of the Rhine. The principle of horizontal calling applied to appellations . A different tribunal of first instance was responsible for appeals.
This did not correspond to the principles of the judicial policy of revolutionary France. The Board decreed in a decree of 21 Fructidor to VII (7 September 1799) the establishment of a Court of Appeals Mainz . This should have the same competencies as the court of cassation in Paris , but be limited to the four departments. It was manned by seven judges, a commissioner from the Executive Board and a court clerk.
Even before the court could start work, the directorate ordered by decree of the 6th Vendémiarie on VIII (September 30, 1799) the relocation of the court to Trier. The Trier appeals court began work there on November 26, 1799. By the end of its work on September 23, 1802, the court had passed 626 judgments. The language of the court was French .
The judges of the court came similarly from the four departments and from France. The first judges were Barris (President), Seignette, Garreau, Cremer, Gunther, Piorry, Rebmann, Gireau and Dumey. The commissioner was Claude Emanuel Dobsen. After a few changes in personnel, the judges at the end of the court consisted of Garreau (President), Piorry, Gunther, Rebmann, Giraud, Dumey, St. Martin, Jouve and d'Hame. A judge received an attractive salary of 7,000 francs.
Appeal Court Trier
With a law passed by the consulate on June 30, 1802, the new French Constitution and French administrative legislation were introduced in the annexed areas. The consular decree of 14th Fructidor an X (September 1st, 1802), the judicial reform provided for in this constitution (as already done with the law of 27th Ventose an VIII in France) was also implemented on the left bank of the Rhine.
With this law, the Trier appeal court was repealed on September 23, 1802. His powers were transferred to the Court of Cassation in Paris, which now performed this task for all of France.
Article 7 of the consular decree of the 14th Fructidor an X regulated the new formation of the Trier Court of Appeal. This was now superordinate to the 15 tribunals of the first instance of the Left Bank of the Rhine and the local commercial courts. It was again subordinate to the Court of Cassation in Paris.
The Trier Court of Appeal was opened in a solemn ceremony on January 13, 1803. The president of the court was Garreau. The other judges were d'Hame, Piorry, Rebmann, Giraud, Dumey, Lintz, St. Martin, Jouve, Bouthier, Seyppel and Hom. Dobsen was still a commissioner. There was therefore great continuity of the judges between the appeal court and the appellate court.
On the 3rd Pluviôse on XIII (January 23, 1805) the Département de la Roer was detached from the judicial district of the Trier Court of Appeal and assigned to that of the Liège Court of Appeal .
After the Battle of Leipzig in 1814, French rule in Germany collapsed. The left bank of the Rhine fell mainly to Prussia, Bavaria and Hesse. Prussia largely took over the French judicial organization. The French court of appeal Trier has now become the court of appeal Trier .
literature
- Antonio Grilli: The French judicial organization on the left bank of the Rhine 1797–1803. (= Legal History Series. Volume 190). Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M., Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-631-34089-3 , pp. 215-224.
Individual evidence
- ^ Resolution of the 9th Frimaire X, printed in the Bulletin LXXII of the collection