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Court case Catherine Karygk versus Prague New Town
Benďáková, Alena ; Chmelař, Jiří (referee) ; Čechura, Jaroslav (advisor)
Catherine Karygk conducted lawsuits against Prague New Town, which lasted more than twenty years and were related to the problems with the people from Svejpravice. She inherited land in the villages of Svejpravice, Chvaly, Babice and Lhota. However, Svejpravice was a holding of the Prague New Town, which was confirmed by an Imperial Charter by King George of Poděbrady, Vladislav of Jagello and Ferdinand I. Although this village was under the administration of the New Town Council, private persons also owned land there and one of them was Catherine Karygk. She repeatedly filed suits against several people in this village who caused damage to her property. Another problem was the suit for the village of Svejpravice itself as it appears from available documents that the Prague New Town laid claim to a bigger part of the village than was in its holding. The cause of these disputes was the removal of boundary-stones marking the plots of the different owners and the absence of marker stones which would show the location of the removed boundary-stones. Numerous and repeated complaints by Mrs. Catherine show that Prague New Town either did not take much note of them or that their subjects did not respect the decision of the New Town Council and Chamber Court. Most lawsuits were conducted in the 1660's when Mrs....

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