Metadata: Records and documents of the Civil and Bankruptcy Court
Collection
- Country:
- Hungary
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Hungary, Csongrád County Archives, Szeged
- Holding institution (official language):
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Csongrád Megyei Levéltára, Szeged
- Postal address:
- 6701 Szeged, Pf. 460
- Phone number:
- +36 62 425 199
- Web address:
- http://mnl.gov.hu/mnl/csml/mnl_csml_szeged
- Email:
- csml@mnl.gov.hu
- Reference number:
- IV.B.104.a
- Title:
- Records and documents of the Civil and Bankruptcy Court
- Title (official language):
- Polgári és csődtörvényszék jegyzőkönyvei és iratai
- Creator/accumulator:
- Csanád county
- Date(s):
- 1848/1849
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 0.33 linear metres (2 volumes. 2 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection ‘Records and documents of the Civil and Bankruptcy Court’ comprises the records and documents of Csanád County. This collection is part of the extensive collection of ‘Documents of Csanád County Tribunal 1848-1849' from the civil era.
The main feature of the collection is that the feudal judicial system survived, and the records were kept continuously. The collection contains both the records and the related documents. The collection includes details of protests, judicial investigations, letters of testimonies and privileges, confessions, deeds of gifts, reports, orders, agreements, inspections of landmarks, local inquiries, requests, appraisals, judicial prohibitions, revocations, summons, contracts and testaments. In this period, the civil tribunal heard cases removed from the jurisdiction of ecclesiastical courts: relocation of sales and bankruptcy transactions. The records were written in Hungarian. The language of the documents is diverse: there are sources in Hungarian, German and Latin.
The collection includes Jewish-related record entries and documents. The numbering of the record entries and the documents runs parallel. However, not each record entry is accompanied by documents. The number of record entries is 32. The first entry is from session 21 02 1848 No 1. and deals with the case of debt claims of Mark Pollák.
Jewish-related sources can be found under 24 headings. In the case of documents, the first entry is from 1848 (No 1.) and deals with the debt claims of Mark Pollák against David Palincsár. The vast majority of both the records and documents place particular emphasis on debt settlement cases and bankruptcy court proceedings within civil proceedings. The documents refer to individuals: bankruptcy of Fülöp Schatteles (1848 No 34., 146.), Baruch Singer (1848 No 200.) and lease matters of Jacob Fischer (1848 No 118.) The entries in the records are short and concise. In addition to the names of the parties, they focus on the subject matter of the lawsuit, potentially indicating its date. In relation to documents, some cases are explained in more detail. Both orphan records in the collection (i.e. single documents) can be related to a case, or an extensive file (which contains the more extensive investigative material) of Barbara Kohn claiming for dowry (1848 No 182.).
The document collection has particular value as it also includes internal sources of Jews, individual petitions and reports. The geographical distribution is small; the collection mentions the inhabitants of Makó, Battonya, Palota, Apátfalva and Nagylak. The records were written in Hungarian. The documents were written in Hungarian, Latin and German.
- Archival history:
- The Csanád county archives were established in 1717. The document collection was maintained in the office building of the county seat, Makó. The turbulent past of the county and its territorial transformations (for example, it was merged with Békés and Csanád counties in the 1780s, and Szegvár became the new county seat) affected the placement of the collection. The new collection was stored in the new centre, and some selected old documents were transferred to Szegvár. Csanád County remained in Makó (although the counties were also temporarily transformed in the 19th century). September 1950 marked fundamental changes when Szeged became the new county seat, since Csanád County was merged into Csongrád county. The documents concerning the newly developed territory of the county were transported to Szeged, where they are available today. However, the municipality of Makó seeks to place the former Csanád county documents in its own archives building, and the collection might return to Makó again.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- During the Revolution and the War of Independence, the county courts operated according to the organisational form customary in the feudal age. The officials were re-elected in June 1848, but the new presidents took office only after June. The first sub-prefect presided over the sessions of the civil tribunal. The civil court ceased to operate on 13 July 1849.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Fischer, Jacob
- Kohn, Barbara
- Pollák, Mark
- Schatteles, Fülöp
- Singer, Baruch
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters--Debt
- Legal matters
- System of arrangement:
- The tribunals continued the previous records with continuous numbering. The records comprise two volumes, in two separate boxes. The numbering corresponds to their serial numbers in the records.
- Access, restrictions:
- It is likely that this material will be moved to Makó, where it will be unavailable for an undefined period of time.
- Finding aids:
- There are no finding aids.
- Yerusha Network member:
- University of Szeged
- Author of the description:
- Dr. Tibor Almási and Dr. Erzsébet Mislovics, University of Szeged, 2019
