Kaufbrief & Receipt 1839/40: Äcker IN Book, Signatures From Holzschuher & Puchta

They bid onthree documents from 1839/40 out of Nuremberg & Erlangen.

With two signatures of lawyers and politicians Rudolf Sigmund von Holzschuher (1777-1861) and one signature oflegal scholar and judge Wolfgang Heinrich Puchta (1769-1845).

The Heirs of the Nuremberg wire manufacturer Philipp Julius Kaufmann (died on the 7th October 1837 at the age of 64) and his wife sell to the Tobacco manufacturer Andreas Georg Engelhardt in Buch (Nuremberg) for 265 guilders two fields in book (the hay garden field and the field on Braunsbacher Gasse).

The lawyer appointed by the Kaufmann family is Rudolf Sigmund von Holzschuher.

Available:

1.) 1-page letter from Rudolf Sigmund von Holzschuher at Andreas Georg Engelhardt, dated Nuremberg, 28. September 1839 that his bid of 265 guilders was accepted "by the Kaufmann inheritance interests".

Signed by hand "Dr. v. Holzschuher."

2.) 1-page receipt from Rudolf Sigmund von Holzschuher (Nuremberg, 16. March 1840) that Andreas Georg Engelhardt paid the 265 guilders for the fields in cash, including one guilder and 58 ¾ kreuzer redemption money.

Signed by hand "Dr. v. Holzschuher."

3.) 3-page purchase contract on strong stamp paper, issued on 13. April 1840 from the Erlangen Regional Court.
With his own signature the district judge Puchta, i.e. the legal scholar and judgeWolfgang Heinrich Puchta (1769-1845), father of the ev. Pastor and song writer Heinrich Puchta (1808-1858) and the lawyer Georg Friedrich Puchta (1798-1846), one of the most important representatives of Pandect scholarship.

Format:33.5 x 20.8 cm.

Over the buyer Andreas Georg Engelhardt: TheTobacco manufacturer Andreas Georg Engelhardt was born on the 11th. May 1803 in Buch (Erlangen Regional Court) as the son of the tobacco manufacturer Johann Heinrich Engelhardt and Elisabetha Susanna, née. Schalkhexcept was born in Reichelsdorf (Nuremberg). He married on the 29th. November 1840 in Kraftshof (Nuremberg) Johanna Barbara Ott (* 1. April 1821 in Lauf as the daughter of the citizen, brewer and innkeeper Johann Georg Ott and Innocentia Rosine, née. Hafner, died on the 8th. September 1847). He had two daughters who reached adulthood: Katharina Engelhardt (* 26. February 1843 in book) and Kunigunde Engelhardt (* 18. December 1844 in book). His sister Margarethe Engelhardt died in 1853.

Condition:documents folded; Paper a bit stained. bplease note the pictures too!

Internal note: Engelhardt folder light red

About the notary Rudolf Sigmund von Holzschuher and district judge Puchta (Source: wikipedia):

Baron Rudolph Christoph Karl Sigmund von Holzschuher zu Harrlach and Thalheim-Aschbach (* 22. January 1777 in Nuremberg; † 20. July 1861 ibid) was a German lawyer and politician.

Live and act:Holzschuher, who came from the patrician Holzschuher family of Harrlach, began studying law at the University of Altdorf at the age of 18. In addition to law, he was interested in philosophy, and in 1797 he attended lectures by Johann Gottlieb Fichte at the University of Jena.

In 1799 he acquired the degree of Doctor iuris utriusque in Altdorf and was then awarded the title of Doctor iuris utriusque on January 2nd. Appointed lawyer in April 1799. In 1804 he became syndic of the city of Nuremberg, and in 1805 he was appointed “Imperial City Consultant”.

In 1806, Holzschuher was a lawyer for Johann Philipp Palm, who had been imprisoned because of his publication Germany in its Deep Humiliation, which called for resistance against the French occupying power. However, he was unable to prevent Palm's execution.

After the imperial city of Nuremberg was dissolved in 1806 and added to the Kingdom of Bavaria, Holzschuher campaigned for legal clarification of the affairs of his hometown. One of his concerns was that the kingdom take over the liabilities of the former imperial city, which was recently heavily indebted. This was enacted in a law dated 22. Decided in July 1819. He also tried to protect the interests of the old Nuremberg patrician families against the new authorities.

From 1825 he repeatedly served as a member of the Bavarian Assembly of Estates. He published about his political activities in Munich in order to arouse public interest in politics and parliamentary work.

Holzschuher was an employee of the Nuremberg church administration, which was founded in 1835.

In 1840 he was refused a parliamentary mandate again. He then wrote his main work, Theory and Casuistry of Common Civil Law. This was very well received by experts, which is why it was published again in an expanded and edited edition in 1865, four years after his death.

Holzschuher held the honorary title of Justice Councilor.

Wolfgang Heinrich Puchta (*3. August 1769 in Möhrendorf; † 3. March 1845 in Erlangen) was a German legal scholar and judge.

Life: Puchta was the son of the Lutheran pastor Johann Christoph Puchta. He initially grew up in the rectory in Möhrendorf. When his father on the 13th When he died in May 1784, he came to Ansbach to live with his uncle, the government lawyer Arnold Heinrich Puchta. There he completed the Carolo-Alexandrinum high school until September 1789. However, his uncle did not want to continue paying for his education, which is why the high school principal Faber, who was sure of the boy's talent, enabled him to study law at the University of Erlangen through scholarships. He enrolled on the 15th. September 1789. As early as Easter 1792, no further funds were available for his education. Nevertheless, he passed the examination of the State Judicial Commission.

Puchta was born on the 16th. Admitted to practice law in Ansbach in July 1794. As part of the reorganization of the Prussian judiciary, he was dismissed by decree of January 24th. In December 1796, in addition to his work as a lawyer, he was appointed the youngest criminal councilor of the deputation in Ansbach and at the same time also as a councilor in the chamber deputation. On the 1st In January 1797 he became the first judicial magistrate to move to the judicial office in Cadolzburg and was given the title of judicial councilor. When Ansbach fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806, Puchta was appointed royal Bavarian district judge at the Ansbach district court. In 1812 he came to the newly founded Erlangen Regional Court as a district judge. There he increasingly interacted with the university's legal scholars, including Christian Friedrich Glück and Karl Heinrich Gros.

Puchta became increasingly active as a specialist writer. At 3. In August 1817 the law faculty awarded him an honorary doctorate (Dr. iur. utr. hc) and on the 6th In April 1821 he was elected a member of the Commission for the Reform of the Procedural Code. He made several proposals to reform the judiciary. In 1838 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of Saint Michael, on December 15th. He finally retired in June 1840.

Puchta is the father of Christian Heinrich Puchta and Georg Friedrich Puchta.

Works (selection)

About the destruction of goods and the property trade, Enke, Erlangen 1816.

Handbook of judicial procedure in matters of voluntary jurisdiction, 2 volumes, Palm, Erlangen 1821–1832.

Contributions to the legislation and practice of civil legal proceedings, 2 volumes, Palm, Erlangen 1822–1823.

The institute of arbitrators examined according to its current use and its usefulness for shortening and reducing the processes, Erlangen 1823.

The service of the German judicial offices or individual judges, 2 volumes, Palm, Erlangen 1829–1830.

On the procedure in minor civil law matters, 1834.

The regional courts in Bavaria and their reform: with comparative consideration of the German court system of earlier times, Erlangen 1834.