Metadata: Department of justice of Osnabrück
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- State Archives of Lower Saxony - Osnabrück Branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv - Standort Osnabrück
- Postal address:
- Schlossstraße 29, 49074 Osnabrück
- Phone number:
- +49 531 33162 0
- Reference number:
- Rep. 924 I
- Title:
- Department of justice of Osnabrück
- Title (official language):
- Justizkanzlei Osnabrück
- Creator/accumulator:
- Department of justice of Osnabrück
- Date(s):
- 1814/1852
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 624 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes file No. 1 Manuscript for the "Codex Constitutionum Osnabrugensis", 1819.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In 1814, with the elimination of the French court organisation (see Rep 917 Osn) as the second instance court, the "Königlich-Großbritannische Churfürstlich-Braunschweig-Lüneburgische Justiz-Canzlei des Fürstenthums Osnabrück" was formed. Institutionally, it succeeded the former land and judiciary department (Rep 903), but was a merely a judicial college (an authority managing criminal matters) and in the first instance it no longer rivalled the lower courts. In general, it was responsible for the territory of the Principality of Osnabrück and the Lower County Lingen with the bailiwick Emsbüren, temporarily - until the regulation of civil status in 1824 and 1827 - also for the County of Bentheim and the Duchy of Arenberg-Meppen. The Judicature Act of 8 November 1850 abolished all justice departments; in their place, the high courts (Rep 925 and 934) were instituted. Until their establishment in 1852, the justice departments continued their business. Firstly, the following jurisdictions were in place: further treatment of procedures and judgments of the French period in the context of the reintroduced Calenberg departmental order of 1663 and the Hannover criminal regulations of 30 May 1736; criminal law in the first instance, whereby the administrative districts, as before, only led the investigation; exempt or clerical persons were subordinated to it in the first instance; otherwise the justice department was second or appellate instance against decisions of the administrative districts, the city court of Osnabrück and the lower court (Fleckengericht) of Melle. In the Judicature Act of 1850, which finally regulated the separation of administration and administration of justice, the abolition of the departments of justice is already planned. The district courts existing at the district level were to be preceded by high courts, which form the jury courts for the purpose of dealing with criminal cases. The new Civil and Punitive Procedural Codes simultaneously put forth, the old inquisition procedure is abolished in favour of a trial involving a public plaintiff (prosecutor). The jury courts were already established at the departments of justice as of 31 January 1850, before the superior courts were formed along the lines of the judicature act by decree of 7 August 1852 on 1 October 1852.
- Access points: locations:
- Osnabrück
- Subject terms:
- Legal matters
- Manuscripts
- System of arrangement:
- There is no system or arrangement. The material is kept in order of accession.
- Finding aids:
- A database is available.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.arcinsys.niedersachsen.de/arcinsys/start.action?oldNodeid=
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Meike Buck
