History of spread of Austrian civil procedural legislation the west of Ukraine

Abstract

In the article is being investigated the history of the spread of Austrian legal acts regulating civil legal relations in the Ukrainian lands that were part of the Austrian, and later the AustroHungarian Empire. It is reported that after the accession of Galicia and Bukovina, there is still a long time there were regional differences in the use of sources of law, for example, used Polish law or customary law. It is stated that the implementation of the Austrian judiciary in the region coincided with the era of significant reforms in the country, including in the field of civil proceedings, as considerable work was done on codification of law. The first in Galicia, Transcarpathia and Bukovina was the General Court Order of 1781, which governed the civil process. The article discusses the main provisions of the General Court Order (settled issues of disputes between gentlemen and peasants, one judge had to complete the case, all stages of the process should occur in one court, the ban on the delegation of authority of a judge, court decisions should be based solely on the law), the basis on which the code (availability, written nature of submission of materials, free presentation of evidence, enforcement of the procedure for the bidding of movable and immovable property, possibility of appeal to the court of the second instance. The study refers to the introduction of "general judicial order for Western Galicia." reveals the importance of development issues and the Civil Procedure Code 1895, which is considered one of the best attractions right of the nineteenth century