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Lasse (masculine) is the early medieval historical name for a minor-free / semi-free peasant who had an inheritance right to his estate and was dependent on the superior nobility. Other name variants are: Late , laz (Old High German), læt (Old English), let (Old Frisian), Lazze (Middle High German), Lat , late and laet (Middle Dutch ), as well as lat , lâte (Middle Low German).

In addition, in the Germanic tribes and especially in northwestern Germany, both the terms Litus or Latus ( Middle Latin) or Letus (French Latin) for a minor free of various degrees linked to the “ Scholle ”, as well as the name Lito can be found . The state of Lassen is a further development of colonial law , which had developed in the course of late antiquity in the Roman Empire and was later partially adopted in the post-Roman kingdoms of the Goths , Vandals , Burgundians and Franks .

history

The status of the Lassen, Laten or Liten is comparable to that of the serfs and is socially significantly below the status of the noble free and Frielingen . In the regulations of the respective people's rights, for example, based on the amount of wergeld, the social status of Lassen / Laten / Liten and the permeability of the boundaries between bondage, semi-freedom and freedom in the individual historical classes are shown. The different levels of personal responsibility in the court and in relation to the respective employer provide information on the legal gradation and the social intermediate positions of the class. In Saxony , for example, the Lites there had the right to carry arms and appear at the people's assembly and, unlike the completely unfree (servants, maidservants, slaves and prisoners of war), had the right to assemble and vote and, despite their semi-free status, were part of the Tribal.

The status of semi-free / less free means for the person concerned that he was free as a person, but had to pay interest to the landlord for the land that he cultivated. They were often recruited from previously free farmers who, for example, could no longer hold their land due to crop failures, illness or armed conflicts and had to transfer it to the landlord. In addition to the interest payments, which in the early Middle Ages mostly consisted of natural produce, they were obliged to labor for the landlord. Especially in Old Saxon law, the litus was also a dependent, warlike follower of the noble free.

Depending on the region, the feminine form of the status is: Latesse, Lita, Litonissa .

Disambiguation

In connection with the trade name, the following terms are derived from the literature:

  • Laßbank, Latbank, Lassenbank , alternatively: Laßhof : jurisdiction of the Lassen / Laten / Liten,
  • Lassstocknis or Lassgedinge , Lassengedinge denotes the contractual relationship for a lattice product
  • Lassbook is the document in which all rights and changes of ownership of the Lassen are written down
  • Laßgericht, Lassengericht is the competent court for the Lassen, Lassengericht messengers and Lassschreiber are employees there
  • Lassen court case refers to the legal matter to be negotiated and ends with a Lassen judgment
  • Laßgut , Laßraum, Laasraum or Laßhain is a property or property transferred by the landowner upon revocation against certain taxes and / or compulsory services
  • Laßherr, Lassenherr is the owner of one or more stored goods or the judge of the Laßgericht
  • Laßmorgen means in a figurative sense the interest on the lass
  • Let right, let right is the right for the Lassen / Laten / Liten to their stored goods, equivalent to Litrecht, which describes the interest and service of a Liten as the right of the landlord
  • Letting judge is a judge at the letting court who is chosen from among the lass
  • Lassschaft denotes the area of ​​law and the legal relationship of the lets or of an individual sessile
  • Laßschöffe is the official designation for a lay judge from the circle of the Lassen at the Laßgericht
  • Let day is the day of judgment of the let
  • Until the liberation of the peasants, Lasswirtschaft wasaform of lordship or inheritance of the unfree Sorbian peasantry that waswidespreadin the Kingdom of Prussia , in particular in the Margraviate of Upper Lusatia and partly in Lower Lusatia
  • Lass interest is the interest on the property

But today's place and field names are also derived from the names of the Lassen stalls, such as the Laßzinssee and the Laßzinswiesen or the places Laßbrook and Laßbruch .

literature

Web links

Wiktionary: Late  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter CA Schels: Small Encyclopedia of the German Middle Ages . Definition of semi-free ( memento of the original from August 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / u01151612502.user.hosting-agency.de
  2. ^ Litus . In: Former Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 8 , issue 9/10 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1991, ISBN 3-7400-0137-2 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).
  3. ↑ Lito . In: Former Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 8 , issue 9/10 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1991, ISBN 3-7400-0137-2 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).
  4. ↑ Peter CA Schels: Small Encyclopedia of the German Middle Ages . Definition of colon ( memento of the original from August 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / u01151612502.user.hosting-agency.de