Publication details
Kterak Starochrudimští na smrtelném loži kšaftovali (Testamentární praxe v raněnovověké Chrudimi).
| Title in English | How the old citizens of Chrudim used to make their last will on the deathbed (Testamentary practice in early modern Chrudim) |
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| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sborník prací východočeských archivů |
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| Citation | |
| Web | Fulltext |
| Field | History |
| Keywords | Chrudim;royal town;16th-18th century;last wills;legal practice;making a will;testamentary procedure |
| Description | Based on the analysis of 850 wills from the years 1505 to 1760 deals the study with one of the aspects of legal practice in the royal town Chrudim. Consideration is given to reasons for making a will and to a general meaning of a will within the early modern legal and social discourse, further to types of wills and to the analysis of three basic phases of testamentary procedure. The author concludes with a discourse about a function of testamentary witnesses and tutors. The article points out some regional particularities of the legal practice in the town, which lies on a boundary of several legal regions. |