Urbs - Magyar Várostörténeti Évkönyv 9. (Budapest, 2014)
Abstracts
Abstracts 329 traditions of other communities makes it possible to synthetize the history of the late feudal society and its legal affairs in Hungary. The present paper deals with a slight chapter of that issue through reviewing one lawsuit. This single suit is enough to prove how the ethics of the serfs and peasants harmonized to the common law and the way of enforcing the right of one and other parties. GÁBOR CZOCH Transgression of Feudal and Civil Norms in the 1840s. Infringements around the Musters of the Burgher Guard of Kassa Conflicts resulted by the musters of the burgher guard in the city of Kassa in 1842 stand at the centre of the present study. Although service in the burgher guard was obligatory for all the citizens possessed full citizenship, some of them attempted to avoid it, moreover there were residents who refused that and cursed declaredly the city council. On the other hand, citizens without full citizenship volunteered to the burgher guard. It seemed to them that the service could provide for them the prestige inherent with the civil right without taking it fully, because obtaining of that was quite expensive and it had slight financial advantage apart from the prestige. The leadership of the city treated that behaviour as transgression. According to their perception, any artisan, merchant or intellectual resident, who possessed appropriate property had to take on the urban citizenship. The examined issue is to be studied as an aspect of the transformation of the Hungarian feudal society. It tells that the members of different classes interpreted the norms related to the existing political system in their own way, furthermore, the modes how they questioned and modified these norms in the field of social practices.
