Zemské desky

The so-called land boards ( tschech. desky zemské ) were first introduced in Bohemia and Moravia registers in which the nobility had to record his important legal transactions. In the country charts, especially the noble land has been acquired. From boards to talk, because according to tradition, the records should be first done on wooden panels. But this is never the case, rather, found books using registers.

1321 Moravian Landtafel was the Bohemian, in 1348 set up. The aristocratic communities of the neighboring countries Austria and Styria soon took institution and concept.

Function

The entry of noble estates in the country last panel had not the purpose to clearly delineate the nobility. Only those who had a company registered in the Landtafel Well, part of the Bohemian nobility and was allowed to participate in the parliament. With this narrow connection to the corporative parliament, it was natural to register soon the parliament resolutions, as well as general orders and statutes in the country charts. In Bohemia, the entry in the land boards was since the 15th century in general the requirement that a law could come into force. The judgments of the land law, the highest feudal courts in Bohemia and Moravia, were recorded in the country charts. In a fire at Prague Castle in 1541 the old Bohemian regional records were lost.

In the Austrian lands compilations recognized privileges of a country and the directory of the aristocratic landowners Landtafel were called. Also in the Alpine countries they were continually upgraded and updated. Unlike in Bohemia but they are not used to record the judgments of the District Court, because this supreme courts were not pure noble but common concern of the stands and the country gentlemen.

Conversion and end

Even after the introduction of modern rule of law in the Habsburg monarchy the country panels remained in Bohemia, Moravia, Upper and Lower Austria. They were continued after 1848 in addition to the basic books. In the Czech lands, the land boards were abolished during the first Czechoslovak Republic. In Austria, only in 1980 by the Land Registry Conversion Act of 27 November 1980 on the transfer of data from the country tables included in the basic books.