Reverzális-istrukció és vita a vegyes házasságokról az 1841-42. évi erdélyi diétán
Reversal-Instruction and Discussion of Mixed Marriages an the 1841-42 in Transylvanian Diet

Summary/Abstract: The study deals with the political debate on the issue of religious intermarriages between Catholics and Protestants in the Transylvanian Parliament in summer of 1842. The first two chapters summarize the development of the juridical framework of the debate beginning with 1791. In addition to the laws and law-proposals of the early 19th century on bounding and separating intermarriages comes the 1841 pastoral letter of Bishop Kovács Miklós, which orders the clergy the introduction of a specific Transylvanian kind of reversal: an oral commitment of the Protestant part to baptize and grow up all his/her children in Catholic faith. The result of the juridical development and that of the debate was a set of laws and law-proposals that may had have later a prolific influence on the Hungarian marriage-laws, in the times of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

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