Original scientific paper
A Contribution to the Knowledge of Land and Legal Relations in the Varaždin Generalate
Kristina Milković
; Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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Abstract
The Military Frontier Rights were published in 1754 for the area of the Varaždin and Karlovac Generalates, and somewhat later for other parts of the Krajina. They were an external sign of the unification of the Military Frontier area. It is a comprehensive document in German that regulates various areas such as the judiciary, civil and criminal proceedings, and land relations. Land ownership relations are regulated by one of its seven titles, Title IV. The Varaždin Generalate found itself in a specific situation due to its tradition of the Wallachian Statutes from 1630 and, in line with this, the legal acts of the Military Frontier reformers from the first half of the 18th century, especially Hildburghausen. A comparison of the entire text of the Military Frontier Laws with earlier legal documents would be too extensive a topic for an article, therefore this paper focuses on comparing the regulation of land ownership relations in the Military Frontier Laws with regulations from the first half of the 18th century in the Varaždin Generalate, and highlights continuities and discontinuities in the legal regulation of land ownership relations that were the foundation of the Military Frontier society.
Keywords
Military territorial rights; Vlach statutes; Varaždin generalate; Military frontier; Hildburghausen
Hrčak ID:
325219
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Publication date:
15.12.2024.
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