NAJSTARŠIA ÚPRAVA DEDIČSKÉHO PRÁVA NA PRÍKLADE SLOBODNÉHO KRÁĽOVSKÉHO MESTA TRNAVY DO KONCA 16. STOROČIA

• Authors: Adriana Švecová

Title variants

EN

The oldest amendment of the inheritance law taking the royal borough of Trnava up to the end of the 16th century as an example

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The author devotes attention to Early Modern practices in connection with wills in the royal borough of Trnava as a member of the group of treasury (tavernicalis) towns. She has narrowed her research base to the 16th and 17th centuries and the archives of the Trnava town authorities, in which the first surviving wills date from 1511. She traces the inheritance procedure of inheritance from a will in the summary of questions of the right to establish a will (and other actions of the mortis causa), determination of the group of legal heirs, freedom of bequest, formal signs of the establishment of a will and the basic material-legal principles of town inheritance law in the Kingdom of Hungary in Early Modern times. The result is only a legal historical sketch of inheritance practice at Trnava, but it opens the way to further research on the extensive documentary material from the following centuries, since the researched collection is remarkable for the preservation of the originals, rather than the usual preservation of the libris testamentorum.

Keywords

EN

TRNAVA; INHERITANCE LAW; LEGAL CUSTOM; WILL; INHERITANCE PRACTICE; LEGATE; SLOVAKIA

• Publisher: Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historický časopis (Historical Journal)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 27 – 44

Contributors

author

Adriana Švecová

• Katedra dejín práva Právnickej fakulty Trnavskej univerzity v Trnave, Hornopotočná 23, 918 43 Trnava, Slovak Republic