Record management on the dissolution of marriage in the Orthodox and Roman Catholic consistories (late XVIII – early XX century)
Keywords:
consistory’ records management, Orthodox Сonsistory, Roman Catholic Сonsistory, judicial documentation of Сonsistory, divorce filesAbstract
The article provides a comparative analysis of the terminology, organization and documentation of judicial activities of Orthodox and Roman Catholic consistories in Belarus in the late XVIII and early XX centuries. The author defines and justifies three types of family breaks (recognition of marriage as illegal, permission for separate residence of a husband and wife, divorce), and the reasons for private appeals to Consistories. In accordance with the organization of proceedings of the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Consistories for divorce cases and its regulation, two most significant periods are identified: late XVIII – 1841; since 1840s to the early XX centuty. The third period (late ХІХ – early XX century) is identified for Orthodox church. The trial involved three stages, and some unification of the judiciary between confessions was achieved after 1841. The specifics of the confessions persisted in the design of judicial documentation, the use of certain types of documents, the organization of the adoption of appeals by the population and the decision by the Сonsistory for them, and their appeal.
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