Metadata: Central Court of Volhynia; Zhitomir, Volhynia Province
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Zhitomir Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Житомирської області
- Postal address:
- 2/20 Ohrimova Hora Str.. Zhytomyr, 10003, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (0412) 42-48-00
- Web address:
- http://archive.zt.gov.ua/
- Email:
- archive_zt@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 16
- Title:
- Central Court of Volhynia; Zhitomir, Volhynia Province
- Title (official language):
- Волынский главный суд, г. Житомир Волынской губ.; Волинський головний суд, м. Житомир Волинської губ.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Central Court of Volhynia
- Date(s):
- 1796/1831
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 3,858 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included (op. 6) are court case files concerning property and financial relations between the Lutsk and Dubno Jewish kahals, as well as between the Lutsk Karaite community and Catholic monasteries and individual landowners.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Established in March 1797 to replace the previous chambers of the criminal and civil court, this was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice and was the highest appellate instance court in the province. It consisted of a chancery and two departments, criminal and civil. It was liquidated in 1831 in connection with the restoration of the chambers of the criminal and civil court.
- Access points: locations:
- Dubno
- Lutsk
- Ukraine
- Volhynia province
- Zhitomir
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes six inventories systematised by document type and chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
