The chancellery of the mortgage offices in the former Prussian partition in the first years of the Polish judiciary, following the example of the county courts of the Toruń district Cover Image

Kancelaria urzędów hipotecznych na terenie byłego zaboru pruskiego w pierwszych latach funkcjonowania sądownictwa polskiego na przykładzie sądów powiatowych okręgu toruńskiego
The chancellery of the mortgage offices in the former Prussian partition in the first years of the Polish judiciary, following the example of the county courts of the Toruń district

Author(s): Hadrian Ciechanowski
Subject(s): History of Law, Political history, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika
Keywords: Second Polish Republic; judiciary; land registers; mortgage registers; county courts; chancery; public registers; former Prussian partition;

Summary/Abstract: With the integration of the lands of the former Prussian partition into the Republic of Poland, the former Prussian institutions, including the courts, were also taken over. Their organisation and functioning, therefore, had to be adapted to the new conditions. The same situation was to be found with land registers, the keeping of which was entrusted to county courts, within which mortgage departments were established as counterparts of Prussian land registry offices. The article presents the office procedures used to prepare land books and records during the first period of the Polish judiciary. The article is based on analysing legal acts and archival materials produced by these courts.

  • Issue Year: 68/2023
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 99-124
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Polish