Sądownictwo hipoteczne w Królestwie Polskim. Organizacja, obsada personalna i zadania urzędu na przykładzie hipoteki płockiej
Land and Mortgage Courts in the Kingdom of Poland. The Organization, Staff and Duties of the Office on the Example of the Mortgage Registry in Płock

Author(s): Mikołaj Nowacki
Subject(s): 19th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: enfranchisement decree; land and mortgage courts; mortgage registrars; ownership transformations
Summary/Abstract: Without the work of mortgage registrars it would be hard to imagine execution of the enfranchisement decree of 1864 and the second one which abolished the dominium relationships in the cities in 1866. The registrars were responsible for indicating the land to be parceled out. They registered the liquidation tables of peasant settlements, due to which it was possible to pay compensation to the landowners. The changes registered by mortgagees led to serious transformations of the social structure. The peasants gained full rights. The landed nobility was replaced to a great extent by the landed gentry. The noble families deprived of landed property moved to cities and created a social stratum of the intelligentsia. Mortgage offices and their registrars disappeared in 1944, replaced by the departments of common courts. Since 1986, registers and collections of documents to them, under the regulation of the Minister of Justice, have been gradually transferred to state archives. They are a unique, but still rarely used research material for both regionalists and genealogists.

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