Mage (right)
The mage referred to a related person, especially the blood relative , mostly outside the immediate family circle. Mage is a very early document of the medieval Germanic legal system and has not been used since the 17th century. The term played a role in ecclesiastical marriage and inheritance law .
The male relatives were referred to as sword gizzards and female relatives as spil gizzards. Sword stomachs, in old German law, are the male relatives on the father's side.
The kinship established by common descent from an ancestor was called magschaft. Canon law also knew the concept of spiritual magship ( Latin cognatio spiritualis ), which established a special relationship between the persons involved and their relatives through marriage , baptism or confirmation .
In terms of its use, the mage could also generally denote a relative or the relationship as a whole.
literature
- Nabil Osman (ed.): Small lexicon of vanished words . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-406-51123-6
- Mage . 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 ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sword Stomach . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 18, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1909, p. 209 .
- ↑ Magschaft . 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 ).