Minor council

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Minorat (from the Latin minor “smaller, lower”) or Juniorat (“younger”) denotes a line of succession according to which inheritance via the youngest child is regulated and only the next male relative or - with the same degree of relationship - the youngest is entitled to inheritance . If there is no male heir , preference is given to the youngest daughter , or the eldest daughter in regions administered by the Church . The minority comes from the old court law . In contrast to this, there is the Majorat , in which the elder alone takes over the inheritance.

An inheritance regulation in which the last-born inherits everything is called an ultimogeniture ("last-born succession order").

A minority was found, for example, in the canton of Bern (Switzerland), but also in Saxony , where the youngest son took over his parents' farm .

The ownership regulations for the county of Ravensberg of November 8, 1669 confirm the inheritance law as a traditional law of youngsters. If a son cannot inherit, the youngest daughter takes the place; Children of the first marriage take precedence over those of other marriages in succession.

In high pin-Augsburg bailiff office Pfronten received before 1800 first always the youngest son of the yard. If there was no male heir, the eldest daughter would be preferred. This regulation is attested in 1840 "according to ancient land usage" for the former Montfortic county of Rothenfels ( Immenstadt ).

In 1864 in what is now Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the municipality of Kartlow, the Prussian government approved the establishment of a family entrenchment based on the English model as a minor council. In 1870 the title " Graf von Cartlow" was associated with it, which was only available to the entertainer.

In the 1930s, the Łódź Germans in Poland often gave up the previous right of inheritance with minor councils and switched to real estate.

See also

Web links

  • Inheritance law entry: Youngest law. In: Erbrecht-Heute.de. Without a date.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Pfeiffer: The age of absolutism in Westphalia. In: Heinrich Glasmeier: Image reproductions of selected documents a. Files on the history of Westphalia. Verlag der Archivbildstelle, Münster 1932, p. ??.
  2. ^ Bertold Pölcher: House justice in Pfronten. In: Around the Falkenstein. Bulletin of the Heimatverein Pfronten e. V., Volume 4, Issue 3, Pfronten June 2009, pp. 89/90.
  3. ^ Georg Michael von Weber: Presentation of the entire provincial and statutory rights of the Kingdom of Bavaria. 4th volumes. 1st part, 1840, p. 317.
  4. ^ Oskar Kossmann: The Germans in Poland since the Reformation. Marburg 1978, p. 245.