Farewell (certificate)

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Memorial from 1722 ( transcription )

As a farewell , latin recessus , eingedeutscht recess , a document called, which lists the decisions of a quorum, a meeting of a parliament or a provincial. Alternative terms are memorial or arbitration . Examples of farewells are state parliament or Reich farewells or Hanseatic processes . A well-known farewell was, for example, the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803.

Public law provisions were formally adopted in such a document , so that they were made available to the public. Also documents in which the results of church visitations were recorded could be called farewells , in this case visitation farewells .

literature

  • Eugen Haberkern, Joseph Friedrich Wallach: auxiliary dictionary for historians . 6th edition, part 1., A – K / with a preface by Hermann Oncken . Francke, Tübingen 1980 (Uni-Taschenbücher, 119), ISBN 3-7720-1291-4 .

Transcripts

  • Philipp Anton von Segesser : Official collection of older federal farewells, published by order of the federal authorities . Vol. 1-4. Zurich / Lucerne 1858–1874.
  • Johannes Strickler : Collection of acts on the history of the Swiss Reformation in the years 1521–1532 following the simultaneous federal farewells.

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