Depossedation
Depossedation (from French déposséder : drive out of possession, expropriate, dethrone) means in the broader sense the loss of a territory or the throne, so it is an equivalent to "deposition".
The term came into use in the historiography of the 19th century, especially in connection with the treatment of the Peace of Lunéville and the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss ("deposed princes" by the left bank of the Rhine ceded to France ), and was used in the second half of the 19th century related to the rulers who were deposed in 1859 and 1861 in the course of the unification of Italy and in 1866 as a result of the Austro-Prussian War :
- in Italy the Dukes of Parma and Modena , the Grand Duke of Tuscany and the King of Sicily ,
- in Germany the King of Hanover , the Elector of Hesse and the Duke of Nassau .
The deposed princes and their families retained their titles and honorary rights as well as the right of equality with the ruling houses.
Conversely, possessing means that someone owns something, possesses something. This term can already be found in the legal language of the 13th century. During the Jülich-Klevian succession dispute , Wolfgang Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg and Johann Sigismund von Brandenburg , when they had already taken possession of the Jülich-Kleve-Berg inheritance , were referred to as the possessors .
literature
- Depositing . In: Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon . 5th edition. Volume 1, F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1911, p. 409 .
Web links
- depose . duden.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ possedieren . In: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 10 , issue 7/8 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-7400-0988-8 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).