Urbs - Magyar Várostörténeti Évkönyv 9. (Budapest, 2014)
Abstracts
328 Abstracts citizens were recorded got crucial importance regarding shaping and prevailing regulations and getting to know the local legal practice through the city legislation. The study “Everyday protocol’’ of Makó (1805-1882) with its rich material wants to call attention to the particular type of the urban legal development, the legal development of the Southern Plain borough city at the turn of the 18-19th centuries. It examines the ever-changing and diverse world of the legal norms in the jurisprudence of city Makó using the complex aspect, which is close to the newest trends of the micro-historiography and characterizing the research on legal folk life. MÁRIA HOMOKI-NAGY The Relation of Morals, Law and Justice in the Market Towns of the Southern Great Plain. Consequences of a Suit in Szentes The archives of the market towns located in the Southern Great Plain keeps fairly valuable sources regarding the world of the market town, the life and customs of the serfs and peasants as well as the process of the embourgeoisement. On the one hand these documents the records of settlements which include legal actions called fassio peren- nalis, mortgage and gift contracts, leases, settlements, allocation agreements and wills. On the other hand there are the papers created by the courts of the market towns which were to settle those disputes of the serfs and peasants of the late feudal age which had a slight case value. Moreover the said archives possess the minutes and court files of the manor courts were competent mainly in private lawsuits but dealt with minor crimes offended private law. These documents are sources not only the rules of procedure in contradictory matters but they make the common law of the given territory definable. In case of Hungary it is incredibly important, because there was no private law book, the common law edited by Webőczy was in force. However, that changed and developed crucially during the centuries and the modifications can be learned factually from the judicial practice. The common law and the suits aimed to execute it as well as the documents created there reflect well the everyday customs, life of the serfs and peasants thus through the said papers one can give picture about the world of these social classes. The writing about particular microenvironment then its comparison with the life and
