Court book
A court book (also called a court record ) contains handwritten records of what happened in court.
The court books in their various forms were given very different regional names in the early modern period.
This category of official books can, in the narrower sense, be the protocols of criminal jurisdiction with entries on criminal activities, fines (known in Bavaria as an independent official book under the name Wändelbuch ) and the like. as well as the protocols of the disputed jurisdiction.
Particularly interesting for family history are the books of voluntary jurisdiction ( court trade book , Meyers Konversationslexikon 1888, VII 169), which contain entries of marriage contracts, wills, mortgages, estate inventories, etc. In the early modern period, separate series ( mortgage book , marriage book , currency book, etc.) were developed on these topics .
The books of voluntary jurisdiction are also a source for the creation of the land register .
From the city of Eger z. B. The Book of Afflictions and two books of eight have survived, some only in excerpts.
literature
- Reinhard Heydenreuter: court and official minutes in old Bavaria. On the development of the judicial and landlord official system, in: Mitteilungen zur Archivpflege in Bayern 25/26 (1979/80), pp. 11–46.
- Werner Schultheiß: About late medieval court books from Bavaria and Franconia. Contributions to the document system and court proceedings in southern Germany, in: FS f. Hans Liermann z. 70th birthday, ed. v. Klaus Obermayer, Hans-Rudolf Hagemann , Erlangen 1964 (Erlanger Research A 16), pp. 265-296.
- Reiner Groß: Court books and minutes of the Saxon local authorities until 1856 in the Saxon State Main Archive Dresden, in: Archivmitteilungen 13 (1963), p. 186ff.
- Friedrich Benninghoven: Appendix and origin of the Kulmer Judgment Book 1330-1430, in: AfD 45 (1999), pp. 87–118.
- Karl Shippel: The currency and mortgage books Kurhessens. At the same time a contribution to the legal history of the cadastre, Marburg 1914.
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