Metadata: Main Kaptur Court [Sąd kapturowy] of the Kiev Wojewodship
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Київ
- Postal address:
- 03110, м. Київ-110, вул. Солом'янська, 24
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 275-30-02
- Web address:
- cdiak.archives.gov.ua
- Email:
- mail.cdiak@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 5
- Title:
- Main Kaptur Court [Sąd kapturowy] of the Kiev Wojewodship
- Title (official language):
- Главный каптуровый суд Киевского воеводства
- Creator/accumulator:
- Main Kaptur Court [Sąd kapturowy] of the Kiev Wojewodship
- Date(s):
- 1733/1764
- Language:
- Polish
- Latin
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 3 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The documents in this fond, in Polish (with Latin elements), Latin and Old Ukrainian (with Latin elements), contain official document registers of the kaptur courts of the Kiev wojewodship, whose materials consist mainly of decrees and judgements [kondemnaty, a kind of decree] sentencing defendants to banishment, the infamia (a punishment consisting of disgrace and the loss of civil rights), or the payment of monetary fines; and also reciprocal complaints and formal protestations [protestacje] of nobles, townspeople [meshchane], monasteries, and the clergy; notarial documents of the castle court of the Kiev wojewodship; etc.
Materials one way or another pertaining to the Jewish population come in the form of fragmentary records in official document registers and may be provisionally divided into several subject groups:
1. Decrees banishing, sentencing to the infamia and other penalties, and removing from office individual Jews or entire Jewish communities for failure to pay taxes, monetary debts and other obligations, and rental payments; for failure to return pawned property or property left for safekeeping (in particular, a horse, weapons, and other valuables stolen from an inn in the village of Ianovka); and for damage to rented property.
2. Formal complaints [protestacje], baliffs’ [woźni] реляции regarding the serving of lawsuits, and other documents containing complaints filed by Jews regarding damages and offenses perpetrated upon them: highway robberies; failure to repay debts; landowners’ breaches of rental conditions; parts of documents (formal complaints [protestacje], oaths [juramenty], registers of damages incurred) and individual documents on the collection of unlawful exactions from and thefts perpetrated upon Jews by government soldiers and privately-owned detachments quartered in cities, towns, and villages (in particular, in the town of Muravitsy).
3. Records of promissory notes, quittances, property dispute agreements, business proxy documents, etc., including a promissory note of Count S. Leszczynski for the receipt of 3,000 Polish zloty from his factor (steward) Peisakh Aizikovich toward payment of a debt of Prince Wisznewiecki (analogous documents are among materials of the Castle Court of the Kiev Wojewodship); etc.
- Access points: locations:
- Kiev
- Access points: persons/families:
- Aizikovich, Peisakh
- Count S. Leszczynski
- Prince Wisznewiecki
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
