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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- From the Editor of the Volume
- Józef Piłsudski's Attitude toward the Cause of Austria and Germany in World War I
- The Role Played by the Constitutional Tribunal in Preserving the Liberal Nature of the Habsburg Monarchy at the Turn of the 19th Century
- „Freie Kirche im freien Staat”: Die katholische Autonomiebewegung in Ungarn
- Prof. Andor Csizmadia Dr. Dr. h.c. and His Research into the Legal History of Dualism
- Gerichtsverfassung und Justizwesen in Ungarn um die Jahrhundertwende. Kurzer Überblick der tatsächlichen Verwirklichung der Trennung von Justiz und Verwaltung – richterliche Unabhängigkeit und Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit
- Constitutional Liberty in the Area of Emigration in Austria (1867–1918). The Activities of the Emigration Agencies in Galicia and Lodomeria
- Le roi manqué de Pologne — Stéphane II Habsburg
- The Cultural Heritage of the Hungarian Fideicommissa
- The Hungarian Feudal Institutions as Found in the Legal System of the Second Polish Republic. The Relationships between the Estate Manor and the Village in the Polish Spisz (Szepes) and Polish Orawa (Arva)
The Cultural Heritage of the Hungarian Fideicommissa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- From the Editor of the Volume
- Józef Piłsudski's Attitude toward the Cause of Austria and Germany in World War I
- The Role Played by the Constitutional Tribunal in Preserving the Liberal Nature of the Habsburg Monarchy at the Turn of the 19th Century
- „Freie Kirche im freien Staat”: Die katholische Autonomiebewegung in Ungarn
- Prof. Andor Csizmadia Dr. Dr. h.c. and His Research into the Legal History of Dualism
- Gerichtsverfassung und Justizwesen in Ungarn um die Jahrhundertwende. Kurzer Überblick der tatsächlichen Verwirklichung der Trennung von Justiz und Verwaltung – richterliche Unabhängigkeit und Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit
- Constitutional Liberty in the Area of Emigration in Austria (1867–1918). The Activities of the Emigration Agencies in Galicia and Lodomeria
- Le roi manqué de Pologne — Stéphane II Habsburg
- The Cultural Heritage of the Hungarian Fideicommissa
- The Hungarian Feudal Institutions as Found in the Legal System of the Second Polish Republic. The Relationships between the Estate Manor and the Village in the Polish Spisz (Szepes) and Polish Orawa (Arva)
Summary
Wherever we hear the word “fideicommissum” there usually appears in our mind the vision of a huge real property – as the famous Hungarian authors of the 19th century emphasized it – with a big country house, where the owner was usually resting on the porch smoking his pipe, with his dog nearby his legs, and the creaking of the well sweep was the only noise that could be heard near and far in the immense sweltering heat. This is the vision of a presently bygone world, in which the fideicommissum represented the controversial institution with its inalienable nature.
The legal authors of the 19th century seem to adopt a view that this legal institution should be erased from the legal system for the benefit of the enlightened political and legal changes. They believed that the foundation of a fideicommissum reduced the possibility of acquiring credits and prevented the making of investments in the fideicommissum property since the possessor of the fideicommissum could not be sure that by his death his family could get at least the amount of the investment back. But it is also true that without this legal institution most of our present museums would be poorer. These collections and treasures that now form part of the permanent collection of the Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts, or the National Gallery in Budapest were preserved due to the fideicommissa created by Hungarian nobles living in the 17th through 18th centuries.
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- Constitutional Developments of the Habsburg Empire in the Last Decades before its FallThe Materials of Polish-Hungarian Conference - Cracow, September 2007, pp. 81 - 90Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2010