Metadata: Regional Civil Court of Brno
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- Moravian Provincial Archives in Brno
- Holding institution (official language):
- Moravský zemský archiv v Brně
- Postal address:
- Palachovo náměstí 1, Brno, 62500
- Phone number:
- 00420 533 317 224
- Web address:
- http://www.mza.cz/
- Email:
- badatelna@mza.cz
- Reference number:
- 136
- Title:
- Regional Civil Court of Brno
- Title (official language):
- Krajský soud civilní Brno
- Creator/accumulator:
- Provicial Civil Court of Brno
- Date(s):
- 1849/1949
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 576.9 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains files of the civil agenda of the Regional Court in Brno. The fonds is divided into: companies of individuals; general partnerships and limited partnerships; joint-stock companies and limited partnerships by shares; limited liability companies; credit unions and mutual savings unions; storage, raw material, consumer, production and housing cooperatives and other companies of individuals; associated companies. The companies include Jewish firms, which are not specially labelled in any way and which are included in the list with the others. Relevant information may also be found under call № R Inheritance and Guardianship Files from 1850–1949.
- Archival history:
- The commercial register files were collected from the Regional Civil Court in Brno and from the Municipal Court in Brno in multiple phases. The entire set of files from 1850 to 1897 was taken over by the Moravian Provincial Archives in 1938. An inventory and registry was created for call № R and call № D. Part of the civil agenda was taken over in 1971, 1980, 1988 and 2003. The fonds was last inventoried in 2010–2012, and the files were sorted by file references.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- After 1848, there was a significant reorganisation of the court system, and in accordance with a law from June 1849 6 provincial courts were established (Brno, Olomouc, Nový Jičín, Uherské Hradiště, Jihlava, Znojmo). In 1850, the Supreme Provicial Court for Moravia and Silesia was established in Brno, to which the provincial courts were subordinated. Judicial power in civil legal matters was divided at the 1st instance between district and provincial courts. In the 2nd instance, all provincial courts had jurisdiction for all appeals in civil matters based on the decisions of district courts in disputed and undisputed matters. The position and jurisdiction of the Provincial Court in Brno was partially different compared to the others. The Reich law from 1852 also gave the court the right to hear treason cases from all of Moravia. Based on a special law for Moravia from 1854, the provincial courts were renamed to regional courts and only the Provincial Court in Brno retained the old name. In 1938 the court was divided into civil and criminal parts. Other changes were introduced by law in 1948, under which regional courts became only appellate and challenge bodies. The corporate agendas for Moravian courts did not first create a separate department and the files were part of the court’s general registry. Only in 1898 were the company agendas created at the Provincial Court in Brno as a separate section, into which only files of still existing companies were transferred (these were companies of individuals, associated companies and associations). Based on the 1948 law, the agenda of the commercial register was transferred to the jurisdiction of district courts at the seat of the regional court.
- Access points: locations:
- Brno
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Legal matters
- Trade and commerce
- Wills
- System of arrangement:
- The commercial register files are structured into Official books, Assisting books and Files, which have been sorted by file references.
- Access, restrictions:
- The fond is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Nespěchalová M, Urbánková L: Krajský soud civilní Brno 1898-1923. Inventář, 1971, s. 38, ev.č. 724.; Kolektiv IV. odd.: Krajský soud civilní Brno 1924-1949. Dílčí inventář, 1986, s. 54, ev.č. 725.; Radimský J: Krajský soud civilní Brno, pozůstalosti 1855-1875. Rejstřík, 1959, s. 0, ev.č. 728.; Krajský soud civilní Brno, Firemní agenda (1857) 1863-1949 (1982). Inventář, 2012, s. 53, ev.č. 3339.; Krajský soud civilní Brno, Firemní agenda (1857) 1863-1949 (1982) SV. 1-3. Rejstřík, 2012, s. 979, ev.č. 3340.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
