Basic riot

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In the Middle Ages, the basic riot law was the right of landowners or residents against merchants and transporters to appropriate everything that “touched the ground”. If a wagon axle or a wagon wheel broke, an animal fell or something fell from the transport surface, the entire freight belonged to the landlord and the neighboring residents.

Beach law

As a beach law , this law also applied to shipping. In order to protect against the disadvantages of this right, after the decision of Wisby of June 24th, 1287 and the Stralsund Recess of March 27th, 1365 in the territories of the Hansen there was a ban on the purchase and sale of shipwrecked cargo.

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The aristocratic landowners made use of the basic rights of surrender if the merchants had not paid (excessive) fees for the escort offered to protect them from robber gangs, or if the transporters, as toll refugees , were traveling on so-called "forbidden routes" contrary to the road constraints and suffered an accident.

Knee to hip-deep potholes, soggy and bumpy roads often lead to falls and accidents. However, some landlords were not interested in keeping the roads in good condition, as bad roads made more profit than well-kept roads. As a rule, the landlord received half of the confiscated goods, the rest fell to the vigilant residents of the nearest towns, who received a welcome extra income when such discoveries were made. In the best case, the owners could redeem the goods with half the value.

The already difficult transports were made even more expensive by the basic movement. This caused considerable damage to the national economy and, in particular, to the supra-regional rulers. The Roman-German King Rudolf I von Habsburg (1273–1291) therefore acted just as vigorously against the basic rights of surrender as against the robber barons who attacked and plundered defenseless cargo ships and land vehicles from their protected castles.

In 1375 the right of revolt was suspended by the Dukes of Austria and Bavaria . However, it can be proven that this right was occasionally exercised in the 17th century, as Emperor Leopold I had to deal with its abolition in 1687 .

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  1. ↑ Basic rulings . In: German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (Ed.): German legal dictionary . tape 4 , booklet 8 (edited by Hans Blesken and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - publication date between 1944 and 1951).
  2. ^ Hermann Mathie: Trade and house industry in the upper Mühlviertel. In: Heimatgaue. Born 13. Linz 1932, p. 83, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  3. ^ Leopold Perels: Stranding offenses in German law . Breslau, 1898, archive.org .
  4. ↑ Jürgen Johann: From the old days: The "Grundruhr" on the Middle Rhine. Kreis-ahrweiler.de; Retrieved June 25, 2014.
  5. ↑ Felix Manzenreiter: Mühlviertler Lifelines: Controversial Salt Paths to Bohemia. With special consideration of the 400-year-old salt trade conflict between Freistadt and Leonfelden. Bad Leonfelden 2013, p. 38.