Zounuk - A Szolnok Megyei Levéltár Évkönyve 1. (Szolnok, 1986)

TANULMÁNYOK - Kiss József: Közigazgatás és jogszolgáltatás egy koronabirtokon az 1730-40-es években / 69. o.

JÓZSEF KISS ADMINISTRATION AND JURISDICTION AT A CROWN ESTATE IN THE YEARS 1730-40 According to public laws, the Jazygian-Cumanian District was a crown estate throughout the feudal ages, an entailed property for private landowners. According to his sovereign rights, however, Charles III purchased it to the House of Invalids in Pest (the „Kaiserliches Militär-Invalidenhaus zu Pest), which, without indigenous rights, wielded the landowner's power for 14 years, until 1745. This royal estate covered almost 890,000 kh in area in 1735 with 4,068 tributary holdings registered. 190,000 kh and 2,305 holdings out of these lay in the area of Jazygia, 210,000 kh and 1,112 holdings in Cumania Major, while 490,000 kh and 651 holdings belonged to Cumania Minor. Holdings of the landowners' officers, of local officials and those of outer tenants and occupants were not registered, hence around 5-600 holdings in Cumania were omitted, mainly in the bordering lands being the object of legal proceedings. Our study is the first one to describe the contradictory activities of landowners, centered in Vienna, in the fields of administrating the economy and estates and of jurisdiction. These activities were essentially determined by two factors: the forced procedures according to the dissimilar interests of the landowners' main authorities and officers, and, on the other hand, the autonomy of Jazygia-Cumania and the relative harmony of productive forces, finally making redemption possible. The Jazygian-Cumanian District became liberated from under manorial burdens, having provided 1,000 cavalrymen and payed a redemptional sum of 550,000 r. Ft (Rheinish forints) on their own. 97