!!!Landesordnungen

Landesordnungen (collections of laws): also called "Landtafel". The 
Estates initiated these collections of all the laws in a province 
(including civil law) in the 16%%sup th/%  century. Landesordnungen 
were valid as customary law and were partly approved by the 
sovereigns. W. Puedler drafted a Landesordnung in Lower Austria in 
1573. R. Streun von Schwarzenau and J. B. Linsmayer drafted 
another version in 1594. A Landhandfeste, which is a collection of all 
the privileges of the Estates, was, however, not brought about. A 
group of 4 lawyers, headed by J. B. Suttinger von Thurnhof, had 
started working on it in 1651, but only an order of courts ("Tractatus 
de iuribus incorporabilibus") and an order of execution and appeal 
came into effect. The Landesordnung for Upper Austria was written by 
A. Schwarz in 1609 and came into effect as customary law without 
consent of the sovereign. Most Austrian provinces had only single laws 
but no Landesordnung. In 1526, during the time of the peasants´ 
war in Tirol, a "Bauern-Landesordnung" (peasants´ collection of 
laws) emerged, which was, however, replaced by the 
"Frankfurter´sche Landesordnung" (which represented the 
interests of the upper classes) in 1532. Another Landesordnung came 
into effect in 1573 and was applied until the 18%%sup th/%  century. 
The Landesordnung which was drafted after the peasants´ revolt 
in Salzburg in 1525 was not published. The Landesfreiheiten 
(Landhandfesten) contained privileges of the nobility and were again 
and again approved by the sovereigns.

!Literature
Collection by T. Motloch in: Oesterr. Staatswoerterbuch, 
%%sup 2/%1907; U. Flossmann, Landrechte als Verfassung, Linzer 
Universitaetsschriften, Monographien, vol. 2, 1976.


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