Traces in the Sand

Document 2 · Decree

1777

Konin

A decree of the land court of Kalisz sitting at Konin, entry no. 17 of the sitting that opened on 20 October 1777, between the same parties as the entry before it: the plaintiff and the man cited, who has appeared in person. Stanisław Chełmski sues under a transfer acknowledged before the castle court of Pyzdry on the Wednesday, the eve of the Nativity of the Virgin, 1768: by it the merchant Jan Tracholz made over to him various sums that he claimed from the late Paweł Prusimski. Chełmski demands that Prusimski, Starost of Niszczewice, produce the contract for the sale of the Trąbczyn pine wood that was made with Tracholz and Paweł Prusimski. It is shown to the court that a decree of its earlier sitting, of the Monday after Septuagesima Sunday 1766, between Tracholz and Antoni Prusimski, had sent the cause to a sitting on the ground, and that it has not been carried out. The court therefore suspends the whole matter and, at the parties' request, finds a sitting of the court on the ground of Trąbczyn necessary, on the Monday after Laetare Sunday of the coming year. The judge who is brought there is to order Prusimski to produce the contract, decide the cause finally, hold inquiries and take oaths. The parties are to obey him on pain of outlawry and to cite whom the matter requires.

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  1. N. 17mo Inter Eundem Actorem per Eundem et Eundem Citatum personaliter Judicium etc. Terminum Partis Actoreae ad Judicium suum editum Decidendo controversiis exauditis Licet si Magnificus Stanislaus Chełmski virtute transfusionis coram actis Castrensibus Pyzdrensibus Feria 4ta in Vigilia Festi Nativitatis Beatissimae Virginis Mariae anno 1768 per Excellentem Joannem Tracholz mercatorem et Incolam Vitkovien~ super summas varias ab olim Magnifico Paulo Prusimski praetensas in Personam Ejusdem Magnifici Chełmski recognitae actoratum Magnifico Prusimski Capitaneo Nieszczevicen~ instituendo Comportationem contractus respectu Divenditionis Borrae Trąbczynen~ cum honorato Tracholz et olim M. Paulum Prusimski initorum praetendit Cum vero Judicio suo Deducitur Decretum in anteactis Judiciis suis Feria 2da post Dominicam Septuagesimae anno 1766 Inter honoratum Joannem Tracholz et M. Antonium Prusimski modernum Citatum remissionis causae ad Terminum Condescensionis intercessisse et non effectuatum esse proinde suspenso toto negotio necessariam esse Condescensionem in Fundum Bonorum Trąbczyn affectan~ Partibus Judicii sui In et pro Feria 2da post Dominicam Laetare Quadragesimalem in anno futuro venturam adinvenit Decernendo Quatenus Partes hoc Idem Judicium absentia Duorum uniusve non obstante Conducant Quod sive Qui Conducendus Comportationem contractus superius specificati per M. Prusimski Capitaneum Nieszczevicen~ demandabit Causamque praesentem pro exigentia Legis Justitiae nexus Documentorum contenta Partis actoreae Terminorum resolutis quibusvis dubiis et Intervenien~ finaliter decidet et disjudicabit satisfactionem cui quanta et a quo intererit Decernet Inquisitiones pro oportunitate negotii expediet Juramenta ubi necesse fuerit et a quo intererit excipiet rigores annectet. Cujus Judicii Condescensuri Partes parere et acquiescere sub paena banitionis coram Eodem Conducendo Judice super Parte contraveniente In casu contraventionis publicanda debebunt et tenebuntur. Luita paena 14 marcarum Polonicalium Parti per Partem compensanda Judicio in instanti sub solito rigore per medium solvenda pro quo Condescensionis Termino Partes quos negotium exigent adcitent adcitati sub rigore suprascripto compareant.