Metadata: Main Court in Białystok
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- State Archives in Białystok
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Państwowe w Białymstoku
- Postal address:
- Adama Mickiewicza 101, 15-257 Białystok
- Phone number:
- +48 85 743 56 03
- Web address:
- http://www.bialystok.ap.gov.pl/
- Reference number:
- 4/271
- Title:
- Main Court in Białystok
- Title (official language):
- Sąd Główny w Białymstoku
- Creator/accumulator:
- Court administration in Białystok
- Date(s):
- 1812/1832
- Language:
- Polish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 1.7 linear metres (57 folders )
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collections contains the records of Department I, which dealt with criminal cases, the majority of which were fiscal offenses, signatures forgeries, abuse of subordinates, fires, evasion of military service, illegal logging, vagrancy, illegal border crossing, murders, sudden deaths, attacks , looting, brawls, fights, thefts and fraud. The collection includes the files of Department II - one file, constituting the mortgage files of the Bobrownicki estate in the Bielsko region.
The collection includes cases against Jews accused of various criminal offences:
4/271/0/8/27 Case against Małka Zarachowa from the city of Janów for robbing Lejbka Fajwelowicz of goods worth 65 rubles on the road near Janów, Sokoły county, 1822-1827;
4/271/0/8/28 Case against the Jews from the town of Suchowola concerning the robbery of Antoni Horodnicki from Domurat, Sokoły county, assistant caretaker;
4/271/0/9/31 Case against Chaim Ickowicz, innkeeper in Olmonty, Białystok county, for violently shoving off a wooden chest the pregnant wife of Herszek Chaimowicz, the innkeeper in Krywlany village, Białystok county, 1819
4/271/0/10/56 Case against Dawid Wałły, a Jew from the town of Białystok, concerning illegal distribution of Berlin lottery tickets;
4/271/0/11/36 Case against S. Moszkowicz Kurek, resident of Białystok, and other Jews, for stealing horses from the peasant B. Hliwa in the village of Chraboły, Bielsko county
4/271/0/11/37 Case against Szloma Mieńko, a fugitive from prison, for the theft of belongings in the house of count Michał Starzeniaski at ul. Bojarska in Białystok 1818;
4/271/0/11/38 Case against Josel Moszkowicz from the village of Kowale, Bielsko county regarding the theft of money and belongings from Mendel Kuszelowicz, a resident of Knyszyn
4/271/011/41 Case against Abram Lajzerowicz and several other residents of Suchowola for the theft of nine pieces of cloth from the miller Kazimierz Golecki at a fulling mill in the village of Karpowicze, Białystok county
4/271/0/11/43 Case against Majer Sztejn, residing in Sokółka, and Lejb Ancychrystow from Kuźnica for the theft of items to the detriment of Berka Beniaminowicz from Sokółka, 1821-1822;
4/271/011/45 Case of the Jews Moszek Judkowicz from the town of Sokoły in the Kingdom of Poland and Chaim Lejbowicz, an inhabitant of the town of Narew, accused of stealing horses in the village of Ploski, Bielsko county.
4/271/0/11/47, Case against Wincenty Wierzbicki and Mateusz Wanagiel, townspeople of Suchowola, for theft to the detriment of Jews from Suchowola, Sokólski county;
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
In 1807, the Białystok Department of New East Prussia was divided into two parts. One of them was incorporated into the Duchy of Warsaw, the other was incorporated into Russia and named the Białystok District. The tsarist authorities divided the region into four counties: Białystok, Bielsko, Drohicki and Sokólski, and Białystok became the district's capital. The administration and judiciary of the region was regulated by the decree of Tsar Alexander I of 13/25 July 1808. Supreme judicial power was exercised by the Main Court consisting of two departments.
In each county, a town court and a land court were established for criminal cases. For civil cases, county courts with headquarters in Bielsko and Sokółka were established. In towns, the civil and criminal court were headed by a magistrate and a "town head". Judgments of the magistrate as well as town, land and district courts were appealed to the Main Court. In the Białystok region, the judiciary was based on Polish laws and constitutions and on the Lithuanian statute. In 1840, the tsarist decree made the oblast subject to Russian law. Two years later, with the decree of December 1942, the Białystok region was incorporated into Grodno province, making it dependent on Grodno in terms of the court.
- Subject terms:
- Crime
- Legal matters
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is divided into the following series: 1 - Tax offences, forgery of signatures, years 1814-1828; 2 - Bullying of subordinates, 1821-1822; 3 - Fires, 1819-1829; 4 - Evasion of military service, 1813-1826; 5 - Illegal logging, 1812-1814; 6 - Vagrancy; illegal crossing of the border, 1822-1825, 7 - Homicides, sudden deaths, 1819-1828; 8 - Attacks, looting, 1822-1828; 9 - Fights, brawls, 1819-1828; 10 - Various, 1824-1826; 11 - Theft, fraud, 1815-1831; 12 - Second Department, 1798-1832.
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Urszula Gierasimiuk, 2018