Öröklési gyakorlat vizsgálata a századfordulón. Mattyasovszky Miklós és Baross János gyűjtése
The study of heritage practices at the turn of the century: data collections of Miklós Mattyasovszky and János Baross

Summary/Abstract: The study presents two heritage customaries from the turn of the century as part of Hungarian folk law research. Miklós Mattyasovszky, from 1902 ministerial official, studied the statewide prevalence and the possibilities for the introduction of the German-type descent heritage law (törzsöröklés – Anerbrecht), based on German regulations and surveys (the project was initiated by the Ministry of Justice and was conducted within the framework of heritage law codification). He published his results in his 1904 book. Parallel to Mattyasovszky’s surveys, János Baross also started data collection within the framework and with professional support from the Hungarian Economic Society (OMGE). Baross published only partial results (1905). Mattyasovszky’s analysis was based on 642 county court and notarial reports, while Baross’s analysis was compiled of data acquired from more than three thousand municipal and district-notaries. The two collections provide the most complete source for the examination of turn of the century peasant heritage practices.

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