Agria 43. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2007)

Nemes Lajos: Doma István és leánya Doma Erzsébet közötti örökösödési per (1737–1746)

Lajos Nemes The Inheritance Dispute Involving István Doma and his Daughter Erzsébet (1737-1746) The inheritance dispute between István Doma and his daughter Erzsébet dragged on for more than a decade. István Doma was the cook at the Eger Seminary and by the time the case began, in 1737, he had already worked for his employees for 19 years. His first wife Borbála Takács was a baker and washerwoman for the Jesuits and at the seminary. Their marriage produced Erzsébet, who was born in about 1720. István Dome and Borbála Takács were therefore probably already married by the time the child was born. Although we do not know exactly, the child must have been about five or six years old when her mother died. Before her death the mother had a will written, in which she tried to provide for her infant daughter. In response to the petition handed in by Erzsébet Doma in 1737 the town magistrate replied by saying that the Borbála Takács' will had been made null and void and that István Doma had settled the inheritance by giving his daughter 40 rênes forints and a few clothes left by the first wife, but which were already in the possession of the second wife. This had been drawn up in a contract signed by Erzsébet Doma, while she was still in her infancy. This would have marked the end of the inheritance dispute, were it not for the fact that the daughter reopened the case in 1746 when she got married. In the study we publish the original documents of both parties, but have used contemporary Hungarian spelling. 629