Legal status of Volyn burghers in the 16th – first half of the 17th century
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2019.01.025Keywords:
Volyn, city, burghers, legal status of the burghers, urban citizenship.Abstract
This article deals with the legal status of Volynian burghers in the early modern period. It meant both certain rights and responsibilities. The first item is the right to elect and to be elected to the city authorities, the right to choose of professional occupations and to buy property in the city. Their obligations were to pay taxes and to perform duties. The basic principles of the legal status of the burghers were contained in the privileges – both the location documents, and the separate charters for the rights and liberties to the burghers. In the most detail they were written out in the privileges granted by the owners of cities. It is investigated that the level of legal liberties of the burghers depended on whether these cities were privileged, i.e. endowed with Magdeburg law, or unprivileged and also it depended on the property type, that is, whether they were royal or private. The growth of the role of cities in the life of the state contributed to the fact that at the legislative level they increasingly attracted attention of the central government. The legal position of the burghers is analyzed in three dimensions: socio-political rights, socio-economic rights and rights to establish public organizations. In addition, the burghers were obliged to carry out some duties. The burghers of private-owned cities were considered subjects of their owners. The acquisition of urban citizenship was found out in Lutsk, but probably, it was also used in Volodymyr and Kremenets.
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