Traces in the Sand

Document 1 · Decree

12 June 1589

Konin

An entry of the land court at Konin of 1589, headed with the words that Łukomski is to carry out an inspection. Albertus Trąmpczyński Otha, as plaintiff, has cited Thomas Łukomski for the second time, after he failed to appear the first time. He charges that Łukomski, with other neighbours, built a pond this year in the estate of the village of Łukom and, by holding back too much water, flooded a great quantity of woodland, pine forest, barren pasture and meadow in the estates of the villages of Trąbczyn, Nowa Wieś and Osiny; a sentence in Polish names oak, beech and ash, fit for building and for bee-trees, killed by the flooding. The plaintiff values the harm at ten thousand Hungarian gold florins and as much again in damages. At the defendant's request the court orders a judicial inspection and adds a court messenger, whom the defendant chooses and pays; he is to see in what place and on whose ground the wrong was done, and whether it was done. The defendant must carry out the inspection within six weeks at the place in dispute, both parties must be present, and at the next court terms at Konin they have a final term to hear the outcome before the court.

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  1. Łukomski Visionem exped[ie]t
  2. Exortis partium infrascriptarum Controversiis super citationem literalem terrestrem Coninensem qua Nobilis Albertus Thrąmpczyńsky Otha ex interesse suo Actor Nobilem Thomam Łukomsky cittavit secundo post paenam Contumaciae pro eo: quia ipse anno praesenti constructo stagno cum caeteris vicinis suis cum quibus sibi salvam agendi actionem reservavit in haereditate villae Łukom quo stagno eidem Actori quantum ad interesse eius pertinet ingentem quantitatem silvae et borrae pascuorum sterilium necnon pratorum per nimiam dettentionem aquae in eisdem haereditatibus villarum Trąmpczino, Nowawiesz et Osziny inundavit alias zalial drzewa pospolithego rodzaynego dembiny bucziny jeszyeniny thim zaliewkyem poszuszil do budowania i do barczi godnego Faciendo praemissa in grave damnum et iniuriam Actoris Aestimationis ad Decem millia florenorum Hungaricalium puri auri et iusti ponderis et totidem damni Citatione ipsa cum sua copia praemissa latius enarrante Judicium praesens Terrestre Coninense Controversiis partium praefatarum coram Judicio praesenti factis Exauditis Ad affectationem Juridicam partis Citatae Juri communi inhaerendo decrevit praesentibusque decernit Visionem Juridicam Nihilominusque addidit prout praesentibus addit Ministerialem terrestrem quem sibi pars Citata elegerit ad videndum videlicet et conspiciendum quo in loco cuius in fundo iniuria praefata illata et utrum facta necne: Quam Visionem pars Citata sumptibus proprijs Ministeriali conducto a data praesentis decreti recte in sex
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  1. septimanis consensu partium ad id accedente in loco differentiarum expedire debet sub paenis motibus[?] per partem Citatam in defectu expeditionis lucran~ et succumben~ Cui Visioni partes ambae interesse debent: qua itaque visione ut praemissum est expedita vel non partes ambae praefatae in proximis futuris terminis terrestribus Coninensibus proxime et immediate in Conin celebrandis habituri sunt terminum peremptorium ad audiendum a praefata Visione iuris restitutionem coram Judicio per Ministerialem et alia omnia quae iuris erit in causa praesenti peragendum mix~ visionis decretum praesens conservationem termini et Acta Nullius partis Jure laeso