House law
As property law, house rules or house contract is referred to regulations that gave themselves families of the high nobility ( and place in Liechtenstein today ) to regulate family and property law issues. The reason for this is that in most monarchies state law entitled the high nobility to regulate its affairs autonomously.
Succession
Governed usually was especially inheritance and succession law, for example, the priority of the firstborn ( primogeniture ), the exclusion of female succession in accordance with the Salic or her approval, for example, in the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713. Were before enactment of this house laws often all the sons of a ruler from standesgemäßer marriage equal heir to the throne, which had lead to the fragmentation of the dominion.
In Liechtenstein, the succession is governed today by family law and not by a State Act of Succession. Article 3 of the Constitution of October 5, 1921 is: The hereditary prince in the home Liechtenstein succession, the majority of the Reigning Prince and the Crown Prince and the tutelage vorkommendenfalls be arranged by the Princely House in the form of a house law.
Disciplinary supervision
The family law rules was that the head of the family, usually the reigning monarch, often had the right to make the final decision about the location of the royal household, the spouse and foreign travel of Prince or Princess of his house. Furthermore, the head of the family had to serve as arbitrators in disputes of family members among themselves; the invocation of the ordinary jurisdiction was mostly excluded. This gloss and prestige of the dynasty should be backed up. Special rules firmly laid the conditions under which par with spouse were not allowed and as a member of the house could retire from this or that a female member had to resign on marriage.
Family Foundation
Many aristocratic families owned entails, which are inalienable family foundations. The head of the family had to decide how the income of this fund was to be used for representative way of life that family members who did not have sufficient own private assets. The rules for this were usually part of the House legislation. ( In this entails republics the head of the family were often abolished by law, for the sole owner. )
Today's validity
Many formerly aristocratic families observe their laws house even today. These are formulated as a contract in accordance with the rules of civil law. The validity of the rules of the house following inheritance contract law has been confirmed in the case of Prussia Family Federal Court. However, the Federal Constitutional Court overturned this decision on the basis of the constitutional complaint of Frederick William, the eldest son of Louis Ferdinand by the decision of 22 March 2004 ( Az: 1BvR 2248/ 01) because it is the freedom to marry under Article 6 § 1 basic Law (GG ) and the abolition of the monarchy as a form of government is incompatible.
For today's application of the laws house in Liechtenstein see above under throne.
Individual house laws
- House bill ( Prussia)
- House of Habsburg ( Lorraine)
- Quedlinburg House Rules
- Rheinfelder House Rules
- Rudolfinian House Rules
- House Treaty of Pavia
- Neubrandenburg house contract
- Gera house contract
- Bourbon House contract
- Hamburger comparison ( 1701)