TY - JOUR
TI - Unequal Opportunities Facing Equal Law The Struggle for the Common Rights of the Inhabitants of Galicia Based on the Examples of the Villages of Bratkówka and Odrzykoń in the 19th Century
AU - Popek, Joachim
TI - Unequal Opportunities Facing Equal Law The Struggle for the Common Rights of the Inhabitants of Galicia Based on the Examples of the Villages of Bratkówka and Odrzykoń in the 19th Century
AB - The basic issue of the article concerns the peasants’problems with respect to common rights of forest and pasturage (which in Austria was called Servituten). The issue has never been adequately researched, but rather has only been described in a general or fragmentary way. The examples of the villages of Odrzykońand Bratkówka (which belonged to one estate at the time), illustrate the peasants’struggles over issues such as rights to wood, forest litter, and grazing of their cattle on the noblemen’s estates. In a chronological structure the article presents the most important events that influenced the functioning, evolution, and attempts of peasants to gain confirmation of these rights. It also contains information about the process of regulation their laws in the second half of the 19th century. Therefore, the main issue of the article regards the question of the inequality of the peasant’s chances despite the law’s theoretical equality.
VL - Volume 13 (2020)
IS - Volume 13, Issue 4
PY - 2020
SN - 2084-4115
C1 - 2084-4131
SP - 511
EP - 527
DO - 10.4467/20844131KS.20.040.13010
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/kshpp/article/nierowne-szanse-wobec-rownego-prawa-zmagania-o-prawa-sluzebne-mieszkancow-galicji-na-przykladzie-wsi-bratkowka-i-odrzykon-w-xix-wieku
KW - common rights of land and forest
KW - 19th century Galicia
KW - peasants
KW - landowners
KW - socio-economic conflicts
KW - Odrzykoń
KW - Bratkówka