Court organization in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Homburg
This article describes the judicial organization in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Homburg .
In 1815 the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg was re-established as a result of the negotiations at the Congress of Vienna . It consisted of the Office Homburg, i.e. the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg in the HRR and the Oberamt Meisenheim .
Even if the separation of administration and jurisdiction was not implemented in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Homburg , there was still a division of labor within the head of the office. At the head of the Oberamt was an administrative officer, the first civil servant or also known as a senior officer. There was also a judicial officer or 2nd official.
The judiciary in civil matters took place in the first instance by the Justice Office Homburg or the Higher Justice Office Meisenheim. Comparable to the neighboring Duchy of Nassau , the bailiffs decided as single judges. While the previous law of the Landgraviate continued to apply in the Homburg Office, the Civil Code was applied in the Meisenheim Office .
The first deputation of the government of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Homburg acted as the second instance . By decree of February 18, 1818, this had taken over the duties of the previous court court. A court of third instance did not exist in the Landgraviate (and would not have been appropriate because of its small size). Therefore, the Court of Appeal and Cassation in Darmstadt served as a third instance.
After the incorporation of the Landgraviate into Prussia in 1866, the Meisenheim Superior Justice Office was abolished and, analogous to the other courts in the Rhine Province, a Meisenheim Peace Court was formed as the entrance court, which was converted into the Meisenheim District Court in 1878 .
The Homburg Justice Office was expanded and subordinated to the Wiesbaden district court . It then became today's district court of Bad Homburg vd Höhe .
literature
- Max Bär: The authority constitution of the Rhine province. 1919, reprinted 1965, pp. 107-111
- Johann Friedrich Kratzsch: Tabular overview of the judicial organism of all German federal states. 1836, p. 62, online
Individual evidence
- ^ Eckhart G. Franz, Hanns Hubert Hofmann, Meinhard Schaab: Court organization in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Hesse in the 19th and 20th centuries. 1989, ISBN 3-88838-224-6 , pages 208-209