Statutes of Nieszawa

Statute of Nieszawa, even privilege of Nieszawa were various privileges that forced the Polish nobility by King Casimir IV before the war against the Teutonic Order in 1454 Nieszawa ( Nessau ) at Thorn. Separately issued for individual provinces, they included the a few months previously granted by statute Cerkwica for Greater Poland and the so-called Petita of Opoki for Lesser Poland.

In the text for Greater Poland and the countryside Sieradz the king undertook, among other things, to adopt only after approval of the landscape Assemblies ( sejmiki ) new laws and the army of knights - general levy ( pospolite ruszenie ) - convened.

The privilege for Lesser Poland strengthened the position of the nobility by intensified serfdom of the peasants, the Jews rights in 1453 adopted picked up again, the jurisdiction of the noble district courts for the citizens declared that the landscapes conceded a right of participation in the choice of court officials and the salt tax abolished. 1496 implored King Johann Albrecht a single area across Poland comprehensive text of the statutes. The statutes of Nieszawa opened the way for the formation of the two-chamber system and thus to the Polish nobility democracy.

• Polish History ( Middle Ages)
• Source of law in the Middle Ages
• Historical sources of law
• Legal source ( Poland)
• Judaism in Poland
• 1454
• History of Law (Poland )