Higher Court (Kingdom of Hanover)

In the Kingdom of Hanover, higher courts were the courts of ordinary jurisdiction in the second instance.

Facility

In 1850 there were a variety of different dishes in the Kingdom of Hanover. In the first instance there were 274 lower courts, including 162 offices , 64 patrimonial courts and 48 magistrates . There were 10 judicial offices as the middle courts. The Celle Higher Appeal Court was the highest instance .

After the revolution of 1848 was the Kingdom of Hanover , the jurisdiction of the administration separated and the patrimonial abolished.

dishes

On October 1, 1852, 12 major and 4 minor higher courts were established as courts of second instance (comparable to today's regional courts ).

The newly established higher courts were:

• Great upper courts
  • Aurich
  • Celle
  • Goettingen
  • Hanover
  • Hildesheim
  • Luneburg
  • Meppen
  • Nienburg
  • Osnabrück
  • Osterode
  • Stade
  • Verden
• Small upper courts
  • Dannenberg
  • Goslar
  • Hamelin
  • Lehe

On May 16, 1859, the higher courts of Dannenberg, Goslar, Osterode and Lehe were dissolved. The judicial district of the higher court in Dannenberg was assigned to the higher court of Lüneburg, that of the higher court of Goslar to the higher court of Hildesheim, that of the higher court of Osterode to the higher court of Göttingen and that of the higher court of Lehe to the higher court of Verden. The upper courts of Hameln and Nienburg were now small, the other large higher courts.

With the annexation of Hanover by Prussia in 1866, the remaining higher courts were initially otherwise unchanged as Prussian higher courts.

It was not until 1875 that the Meppen Higher Court was repealed and its district was merged with that of the Osnabrück Higher Court.

In the course of the new, uniform court constitution, 8 of the remaining 11 higher courts were continued as regional courts from October 1, 1879 and the other three were merged with neighboring districts: Celle came to Lüneburg, Hameln to Hanover and Nienburg to Verden.

Bar Associations

The Kingdom of Hanover were the setting up of bar associations concerning law of 8 November 1850, every Supreme Court a Bar Association created. This served for the first time as a disciplinary council, i.e. as a legal court .

literature

• Justice Ministerialblatt for Prussian Legislation and Administration of Justice, Volume 28, 1866, pp. 332 ff, online

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of the Hanover District Court
2. ↑ Law on the court constitution of November 8, 1850 ( Collection of Laws for the Kingdom of Hanover, p. 207 )
3. ↑ Directory of the higher courts, annex to the ordinance for the implementation of §§ 14.15 and 35 of the law on the court constitution of November 8, 1850 of August 7, 1852, printed in: Gerhard Adolf Wilhelm Leonhardt: Die Justizgesetzgebung des Kingdom of Hanover: under special Consideration of government and class motives for practical use, Volume 3, 1852, p. 135 online
4. ↑ Hanoverian legislation on state and municipal administration, 1852, p. 32 ff. Online
5. ^ Ordinance of March 31, 1859, printed in: Laws, ordinances and tenders for the Kingdom of Hanover: from the period from 1813 to 1839. Fourth episode. 1856 - 1862: Department I. Legal Matters, Volume 12, 1863, p. 297, online
6. ^ Johann Günther Knopp: A contribution to the history of the Frankfurt Bar Association; in: 125 years: Frankfurt am Main Bar Association, pp. 15-17.