Supreme Provincial Court of Brno

Collection

Scope and content:: The fonds contains the civil and criminal agenda of the Supreme Provincial Court of Brno. Jewish matters relate to the following items: Usury courts 1919-1921; General Matters of Attorneys (appointment of Jewish attorneys) 1940. Other relevant information from the years 1850-1897 may be located under call № D Inheritance, call № E guardianship and call № F land registers.

Archival history:: Files were transferred from the Regional Court in Brno to the Moravian Provincial Archives in Brno in multiple phases. The process was completed in 1971 and the material was arranged in 1973.

Administrative/biographical history:: The district of the Supreme Provincial Court of Brno consisted of judicial regions in Moravia and Silesia. As the successor of the appellate court (in 1850), besides performing administrative supervision over subordinate courts, it exclusively carried out the powers of appellate courts in the civil court system. In criminal matters, it was a review court that handled complaints regarding certain procedural defects in decisions of district, council and provincial courts. The Supreme Provincial Court of Brno supervised the activities of 8 provincial courts, 22 council courts and 78 district courts in Moravia and Silesia. After 1855, the courts served as council courts of the 2nd bench, and in addition to supervision they also performed the role of appellate courts in relation to decisions of district and council courts in civil and criminal matters. Council courts of the 2nd bench in Prague and Brno, named supreme provincial courts until 14 March 1929, and as of 16 October 1945 only provincial courts, were basically courts that decided about appeals in relation to decisions by lower courts. On 1 February 1949 as a result of the act on standardisation of the court system, a new territorial organisation of regional and district courts came into existence and land courts were abolished.

Subject terms:: Crime; Financial matters; Financial matters--Moneylending; Land registries; Legal matters; Professions; Professions--Lawyers; Wills

System of arrangement:: The fonds is structured into books (presidium, civil and criminal agendas) and files (presidium, civil and criminal agendas).

Finding aids:: Radimský J: Vrchní zemský soud Brno I. 1850-1897. Dílčí inventář, 1959, s. 88, ev.č. 1464; Nespěchalová M, Urbánková L, Vymlátilová M: Vrchní zemský soud Brno II. (1892) 1898-1949. Dílčí inventář, 1973, s. 154, ev.č. 1465.