Neumarkt law

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The Neumarkt law (Latin ius Theotonicum Noviforense , also ius Theotonicum Sredense ; Polish Prawo średzkie ) got its name after the town of Neumarkt in the Duchy of Silesia . It was based on Magdeburg law .

history

Probably during the first years of his reign, Duke Heinrich I endowed the then Szroda market with German law. Magdeburg law was applied, which was adapted to the Silesian situation in individual points and referred to as Neumarkt law . The German law practiced in Neumarkt subsequently became a model for other places. It was mentioned for the first time in 1223 when the Wroclaw Bishop Lorenz suspended the city of Ujest to the right "which the New Market of Duke Heinrich, who is called Szroda", applied. ( eodem iure, quo utitur Novum Forum ducis Henrici, quod Szroda dicitur .)

In addition to numerous towns and villages in Silesia, the Neumarkt law was also granted in Greater and Lesser Poland and Red Reuss . The Neumarkter Rechtsbuch was created in the first half of the 14th century, although only fragments have survived.

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