1781 Allgemeine Gerichtsordnung für Böheim, Mähren

Allgemeine Gerichtsordnung für Böheim, Mähren, Schlesien, Oesterreich, etc. – General Code of Judicial Procedure for Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Austria, etc. (German) Prague: Johann Ferdinand Edlen von Schönfeld, 1781. 8vo, 120 pp. Official civil procedure code promulgated under Joseph II for the Habsburg territories. Engraved imperial arms and decorative vignettes. Contemporary blue-gray paper boards; spine largely perished with loss, exposing sewing and gatherings; boards worn and rubbed with edge losses, but text block holding and complete. Moderate to heavy age-toning. Marginalia in pen throughout, indicating contemporary legal use. A sound but worn working copy of an important Josephinist legal reform text. H010