Swear up

The Aufschwören is the filing of an oath of office and is a legal process in the Middle Ages .

Knights who wanted to be accepted into the so-called state parliament had to swear their origins. To do this, they had to have a knight seat suitable for the state assembly and name at least 16 ancestors.

literature

• Swear up . In: Prussian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 1 , issue 6 (edited by Eberhard von Künßberg ). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1963, DNB  453942598 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - first edition: 1931, unchanged reprint).