Vladimir-Volhynskii County Court; Vladimir-Volhynskii, Vladimir-Volhynskii County, Volhynia Province

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Holding institution (official language):: Державний архів Волинської області

Title:: Vladimir-Volhynskii County Court; Vladimir-Volhynskii, Vladimir-Volhynskii County, Volhynia Province

Title (official language):: Владимир-Волынский уездный суд, г. Владимир-Волынский Владимир-Волынского у. Волынской губ.; Володимир-Волинський повітовий суд, м. Володимир-Волинсысий Володимир-Волинського пов. Волинської губ.

Scope and content:: Included are court case files on the accusation that the Vladimir-Volhynskii Jewish community had boycotted state tax-farming (1824) and that Jews were living in the forbidden area within fifty versts of the border (1836); on lawsuits filed by religious consistories against Jewish kahals over financial issues (1838); on the investigation of an attack by Jews of the town of Druzhkopol’ on a police station during the taking of Jewish recruits (1854), as well as on the Liuboml’ Village Administration and the house of a priest because of the desire of coreligionists to convert to Orthodoxy (1862); on the sale of the property of Jews for failure to pay the korobka [kosher meat tax] on time (1864, 1870, 1872); on the accusation that persons of other confessions had converted to Judaism, and on Jewish converts to Orthodoxy going back to Judaism (1869).

There are also case files on landowners and townspeople [meshchane] accused of oppressing Jews (1822) and of organising disturbances at the Jewish cemetery in the city of Vladimir-Volhynskii; on various Jews accused of evading conscription, insulting police officers, and oppressing peasants; edicts on the sale of spirits by Jews, granting them permission to make vinegar, etc.

Administrative/biographical history:: County courts were established in 1763 as zemstvo povet (county) courts pursuant to a charter of hetman Kyrylo Rozumovs’kyi and in accordance with the Lithuanian Statute. In 1783, Catherine II extended the Regulation on the Provinces (1775) to cover Ukraine, and these courts became county courts accordingly. However, in late 1796 Paul I restored the former judicial system, which existed until the Polish Uprising of 1831; after this was suppressed, all Polish institutions were liquidated, and povet zemstvo courts were reorganised as county ones. These courts were under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice and were initially subordinate to corresponding central courts, and after 1831, to chambers of the criminal and civil court. They heard civil and criminal cases, and also conducted notarial proceedings related to the witnessing of deeds of purchase, promissory notes, last wills and testaments, and the decisions of arbitration courts in property disputes. They were liquidated in 1872 in connection with the Judicial Reform of 1864.

Access points: locations:: Druzhkopol’; Liuboml’; Ukraine; Vladimir-Volhynskii; Volhynia province

Subject terms:: Antisemitism; Cemeteries; Conversion to Christianity; Conversion to Judaism; Financial matters; Kahal; Legal matters; Military; Residency issues of Jews; Taxation; Taxation--Korobka; Trade and commerce; Trade and commerce--Alcohol trade

System of arrangement:: The fonds includes two inventories systematised chronologically.