Tarnopol District Court

The Tarnopol District Court was a court in the city of Tarnopol (Ukrainian Тернопіль / Ternopil ) in the Austrian crown land of Galicia and Lodomeria . The Tarnopol District Court started its activities in 1855.

history

Based on the principles of the constitutions of 1848 and 1849, the judiciary in the Austrian Empire was reorganized. First, in June 1849, the general principles of the court system in the crown lands were approved by Emperor Franz Joseph I , whereupon Justice Minister Anton von Schmerling had plans to organize the judiciary in the crown lands drawn up. Schmerling's proposals envisaged the establishment of three higher regional courts, eight regional courts and 168 district courts for the crown land of Galicia and Lodomeria (full name: Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria with the Grand Duchy of Krakow and the Duchies of Auschwitz and Zator. ), With a regional court established in the city of Tarnopol should be. These plans were subsequently approved by imperial decree on November 6, 1850. The reorganization was accompanied by the abolition of the sovereign courts as well as the patrimonial courts , but in 1854 the authorities established ten courts of first instance in the crown land of Galicia and Lodomeria. In the administrative area of Lemberg (Eastern Galicia), the Lemberg Regional Court was created with the Przemysl, Zloczow, Sambor, Tarnopol and Stanislau district courts subordinate to it. The Tarnopol District Court began its activities on September 29, 1855.

Responsibilities

The courts of first instance in Galicia and Lodomeria, that is, regional courts or district courts, were established as an appeal authority against the decisions made by the district offices. Their business scope also included district court tasks, whereby district and regional courts, as in the case of the Tarnopol district court, could also delegate the issues of the district court tasks to district courts. For this purpose, the “city-delegated” District Court of Tarnopol was set up, which started its activities at the same time as the District Court of Tarnopol.

The Tarnopol District Court initially served as a court of first instance for the Tarnopol District and the Czortkow District. It was also the competent court for civil and criminal matters for the Tarnopol district and the court for commercial matters for the Tarnopol and Czortkow districts. It also served as an investigative tribunal for crimes and misdemeanors for Tarnopol, Ihrowice and Mikulince districts.

With the creation of the District Court Brżeżan the district court Tarnopol lost by 1 October 1884 it has jurisdiction over the district of the District Court Vyshnivchyk , also the district court Tarnopol had on November 1, 1911, the jurisdiction over the district courts Borszczow , Budzanów , Czortkow , Husiatyn , Kopyczyńce , Mielnica , Tłuste and Zaleszczyki to the newly created District Court of Czortków and lost its jurisdiction as a commercial court for these judicial districts.

Most recently, the district court of Tarnopol was responsible for the judicial districts of the districts of Skałat ( Grzymałów , Podwołoczyska and Skałat ), Tarnopol ( Mikulińce and Tarnopol ), Trembowla ( Trembowla ) and Zbaraż ( Zbaraż ).

Individual evidence

^ General Reich Law and Government Gazette for the Austrian Empire 1850, CLXV. Piece, No. 497: "Imperial decree, whereby the judicial organization in the crown lands Galicia and Lodomeria with Cracow, Auschwitz and Zator and in the Bukowina is fixed"
^ Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt for the Austrian Empire 1854, XXXIX. Piece, No. 111 "Ordinance of the Ministers of the Interior, Justice and Finance, Concerning the Political and Judicial Organization of the Kingdoms of Galicia and Lodomeria, with the Grand Duchy of Cracow and the Duchies of Auschwitz and Zator"
↑ Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt for the Austrian Empire 1855, XXVII. Piece, No. 117 “Ordinance of the Ministry of Justice, with which the point in time of the beginning of the effectiveness of the newly organized Higher Regional Courts in Lemberg and Cracow, together with the Higher Public Prosecutor's Offices appointed to them, then the courts of first instance to be introduced in the district of these Higher Regional Courts District Court in Brody and the relevant public prosecutor's offices, as well as the laws related to the new judicial organization are determined "

literature

Christian Andreas Steiner: The territorial development of the administration and the jurisdiction in Galicia and Lodomeria from 1848 to 1918 . Diploma thesis, Graz 2012, p. 137.

[1] General Reich Law and Government Gazette for the Austrian Empire 1850, CLXV. Piece, No. 497: "Imperial decree, whereby the judicial organization in the crown lands Galicia and Lodomeria with Cracow, Auschwitz and Zator and in the Bukowina is fixed"

[2] Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt for the Austrian Empire 1854, XXXIX. Piece, No. 111 "Ordinance of the Ministers of the Interior, Justice and Finance, Concerning the Political and Judicial Organization of the Kingdoms of Galicia and Lodomeria, with the Grand Duchy of Cracow and the Duchies of Auschwitz and Zator"

[3] Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt for the Austrian Empire 1855, XXVII. Piece, No. 117 “Ordinance of the Ministry of Justice, with which the point in time of the beginning of the effectiveness of the newly organized Higher Regional Courts in Lemberg and Cracow, together with the Higher Public Prosecutor's Offices appointed to them, then the courts of first instance to be introduced in the district of these Higher Regional Courts District Court in Brody and the relevant public prosecutor's offices, as well as the laws related to the new judicial organization are determined "