Liberut (legal history)
The legal history concept of Freiguts ( Middle High German vrîguot, Middle Low German vrîgôt, medieval Latin bonum liberum or bonum francum ) is used widely in the sources and is therefore "an indistinct and enigmatic term". As a rule, it was a question of an estate exempt from all or from certain taxes and burdens or otherwise privileged.
The estate as a privileged estate
In East and Westphalia the owners of a free estate were subject to the count's Freiding (the Feme ) , whereas the Gogericht had to be visited from other estates . In certain other areas a Freigut was, however, a country estate, the jurisdiction of the Count or bailiff was revoked. The holders of free goods needed no forced labor to make and no interest to be paid; in return they were obliged to do equestrian services . Originally, only free people could be owners of a good, although the concept of the free is controversial in science. If such an owner did not have a male heir, it fell to the ex-count .
Mainly in northern and eastern Germany one understood under free property such knightly fiefs , which were established in the interest of the national defense. These, too, were exempt from liability and interest.
In connection with the German colonization of the eastern areas of the Holy Roman Empire , lands that were given to the settlers on particularly favorable terms are also mentioned.
Other meanings
Occasionally, the term free goods referred to a freely available good, a free part. This could be the one-handed property of a spouse that did not fall into the marital community of property .
Properties available for sale on which no third party rights were based were also referred to as property .
It is unclear whether free property could also be synonymous with allod , i.e. the property that is in full ownership, especially the family inheritance.
literature
- Werner Ogris : Good luck. In: Concise Dictionary of German Legal History , Volume 1, 1971, Col. 1227 f.
- Eberhard von Künßberg : Good luck. In: German Legal Dictionary , Volume III, 1938, Sp. 748–750 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Concise dictionary of German legal history, Volume 1, Column 1227.
- ↑ Concise dictionary on German legal history, Volume 1, Column 1227 f.
- ^ German legal dictionary, Volume III, page 748 f .; Freedom in meaning I.
- ↑ a b c d e Concise Dictionary of German Legal History, Volume 1, Column 1228.
- ^ German legal dictionary, Volume III, page 748 f.
- ^ German legal dictionary, Volume III, page 749; Freedom in meaning II.
- ^ German legal dictionary, Volume III, page 749; Freedom in meaning IV.