Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs, 12. Jahrgang, Heft 1/2022

The "Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs" were founded as a journal of the Commission for the History of Austrian Law. Since 2011, the "BRGÖ" has been published twice a year both in a print version and online; as a rule, one volume is dedicated to a particular topic, while the second volume contains mixed contributions. The current volume contains mixed topics. J. Razim deals with liens in the late Middle Ages; St. Rieder-Zagkla with the thematisation of the marital duty to have sexual intercourse in divorce proceedings between 1783 and 1938; K. Beliznai Bódi with the restoration of Hungarian civil law by the so-called "Judexcurialkonferenz" in 1861; E. C. Bodura with the pandekten lectures of the Krakow professor Friedrich Zoll. G. Kohl presents "juristic catechisms" as a manifestation of popular legal culture. K. Staudigl-Ciechowicz's contribution focuses on the emergence of Article 15, paragraph 9, Federal Constitutional Law, known as the "lex Starzyński", which gives the federal states a narrowly limited competence to enact civil and criminal law norms. A. Gamper deals with problems of the (German) Austrian state borders between the founding of the Republic and the conclusion of the State Treaty of St. Germain in 1919 and P. Techet sheds light on the legal dimension of the scandal surrounding the performance of Schnitzler's "Reigen" in 1921, which led to the indictment of the Viennese governor Jakob Reumann before the Constitutional Court. A report on the activities of the Commission for Legal History of Austria and the Research Centre for the Exploitation of Legal Sources in the past year concludes this volume.