FILES
TOWN AND LAND.
FILES
TOWN AND LAND
AS A RESULT OF THE FOUNDATION
late Aleksandra count. Stadnicki
PUBLISHED WITH EFFORTS
GALICIAN NATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
VOLUME XIX.
IN LVIV.
MAIN STORE IN THE SEYFARTH AND TCHAIKOVSKY BOOKSTORE. FROM E. WINIARZ'S PRINTING HOUSE IN LVIV.
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PREFACE.
The nature of the borderland land viewed from court records. — Fiefdoms and servitudes give way to influenced by land law.
the wealth of material that a researcher will find in these more than three thousand court sections, are listed in the subject index, which frees the publisher's editor from discussing their content in detail. However, it is necessary to point out the most important moments highlighted in the notes. But here it is worth asking first what content should be called the most important in the note. A genealogist and heraldist will reliably name the most important heraldic record as indicated by the entry under no. 1760, a lawyer a note giving him the text of the law in the resolution of the assembly of 1488 (no. 1440) or notes in which he will find little-known institutions of customary law. The cultural historian will increase the importance of those notes that will show him the progress of light among the steppes and forests and will present the difficulties with which this progress had to fight, etc. Without wanting to get lost in this most diverse material, or to tire the reader, we will point out several specific features found in our files, which, in our opinion, shed some more light on the vast country to which they refer, its civilizational relations, and allow us to assess what role it played in the development of the Polish Republic, of which it was a major part. When looking through these notes, you immediately notice that this is a borderland land with a character that is very different from the neighboring lands of Lesser Poland. Its type is very borderline. This eastern character results from changes in the acts on the unfree population, on the ordins and the defiled, which occurred at the end of the 15th century. centuries (from 1335, 2707, 2709 — 1 1 and others) about the most