Életmód és művelődés Veszprém megyében a 16-18. században (Veszprémi Múzeumi Konferenciák 10. 2000)

Lichtneckert András: Veszprém város 1745. évi statútumainak eredete

András Lichtneckert 1745 MARKET TOWN STATUTES OF VESZPRÉM Historical research pays a great deal of attention to the tracing and publishing of county and city statutes, village acts, vine-growing acts and guild articles. The origin and sources of the valuable products of local legislation generally remain obscure, and so the author has undertaken the task of presenting the history and sources of the origin of the city statutes, using the example of the highly significant 1745 statutes of the market town of Veszprém. In the earlier local history literature the 1745 statutes of the market town of Veszprém were regarded as the intellectual creation of the Bishop and Lord Lieutenant Márton Bíró. The author proves, by tracing earlier city statutes and further legal measures and rulings regulating the life of the city, that there were forerunners to the 1745 city statutes, and legal measures had previously been passed with regard to the questions regulated by the statutes. Because of this, the 1745 statutes are to be regarded as the product of the city legislation process, and in the course of his activities, the legislator drew upon the national laws, the decrees of the governor-general's council, and the rulings of the nobiliary county. The 1745 and the other statutes regulated the most varied questions of city life (moral order, public order, public safety, public sanitation, fire protection, policing of fairs and markets, building regulations, street planning, administration, maintenance of city institutions), and for this reason they are useful sources for local history research. This justifies the fact that the author has supplemented the study in an appendix with sources containing the original texts of 14 statutes, thus, so to speak, putting together Veszprém city law-book from the first half of the 18

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