Rhenish audit and cassation court

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On July 15, 1819 , the Rheinische Revisions- und Kassationshof was opened in Berlin as the highest court for the Prussian Rhine provinces . The first chief president was Christoph Wilhelm Heinrich Sethe . The court existed until 1852 . Its jurisdiction was transferred to the Prussian Supreme Tribunal, newly created in 1850 .

The judges applied French law, which had been retained in the areas on the left bank of the Rhine in Prussia after the end of French rule.

literature

  • Leopold Volkmar : The jurisprudence of the Rheinischer Cassationshof in Berlin. 1819–1846 , Berlin 1848 (digitized version)
  • Gudrun Seynsche: The Rhenish Auditing and Cassation Court in Berlin (1819-1852). A Rhenish dish on foreign soil. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-10886-8 , (= writings on European legal and constitutional history , volume 43) - also diss., Trier, 2001/02