!!!Halsgerichtsordnung

Halsgerichtsordnung (Landgerichtsordnung), name for the system of 
judicature from the 15%%sup th/%  to the 17%%sup th/%  century 
regulating criminal law and criminal procedure. The first 
Halsgerichtsordnung was the so-called "Malefizordnung" of 
Maximilian I for the Tirol 1499, followed by the 
Landgerichtsordnung for Lower Austria of 1514. Further 
Halsgerichtsordnungen were based on the Constitutio Criminalis 
Carolina (C. C. C.) of Karl V decreed 1532 by the 
Imperial Diet of Regensburg, applied in Austria until 1769. 
Halsgerichtsordnungen were issued for Lower Austria 1540, for Upper 
Austria 1559, for Styria 1574 and for Carinthia 1577. In the 
17%%sup th/%  century the Landgerichtsordnung for Lower Austria 
(Leopoldina) decreed in 1656 was the most important one. This 
Halsgerichtsordnung included severe punishments such as quartering, 
breaking on the wheel, drowning, burying alive and burning to death. 
They were replaced with the  Constitutio Criminalis Theresiana.


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