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The Nobility Law (full name: Law concerning modifications and closer determinations of the Norwegian Nobility's rights; Norwegian: Adelsloven or Lov, angaaende Modificationer og nærmere Bestemmelser af den Norske Adels Rettigheder) was passed by the national parliament in Norway, the Storting, on 1 August 1821. It abolished noble titles and privileges within two generations and required legal proof of nobility in the meantime.
The law reflected the democratic philosophy of the Storting's majority, and was passed effectively unanimously in 1815 and 1818,[1] but was both times vetoed by the King before being passed with a large majority the third time.[2] It initiated the abolition of all noble titles and privileges,[3] while the current nobility and their living legitimate children were allowed to keep their noble status or titles and certain privileges for the rest of their lives. Under the law, nobles who wished to present a claim to nobility before the Norwegian parliament were required to provide documentation confirming their noble status.
Text in English
§ 1. The countships and the barony in Norway shall, in regard to the administration of the functions of the civil authorities, be placed either under the county wherein the estates are located or under the nearest county; however, the countships may together constitute a county if it most graciously should please His Majesty to appoint for them their own authority.
The assumption of administration by the respective county governor (prefect) shall be effective from 1 October this year.
§ 2. As soon as the currently appointed overbirk judges withdraw, in the aforementioned districts all decisions in cases in the second instance, and other functions proper to the overbirkthings, shall be placed in the superior court in the bishopric in which the district is located.
§ 3. The right previously accorded to counts, barons and noblemen, resulting from their privileges or the laws, to appoint or to propose clerical or civil officials on their estates is, in accordance with § 21 of the Constitution, entirely abolished.
§ 4. Likewise, the so-called "neck and hand," or the duty imposed on the nobility to have criminals on their estates arrested, prosecuted, and punished, together with the right of term and restitution following from it and accruing to the nobility, shall henceforth be abolished, so that hereafter, with respect to the arrest, prosecution, and punishment of criminals, as well as the imposition of fines, it shall occur on the estates of the nobility according to the regulations generally in force in the kingdom.
§ 5. The freedom from taxes and tithes to which counts and barons are at the present time entitled with respect to the dues for their primary farm and for a certain quantity of associated tenant farms, together with the freedom from taxes and tithes to which noblemen resident on farms are entitled with respect to their primary farms, shall terminate with the present fief holders or owners, and not be passed down to their heir.
§ 6. The rest of the present privileges and prerogatives of the nobility shall, insofar as they do not conflict with § 108 of the Constitution, remain for the noblemen who today are in possession thereof and for their children born in lawful wedlock at the time of publication of this law, such that they shall retain the same for their lifetime, as long as they legally prove their title thereto before the next regular Storting. After the deaths of these persons, who thus remain in possession of certain noble rights, all hereditary noble status here in the kingdom ceases to exist.
§ 7. Anyone who does not prove his nobility with legal documents before the next regular Storting shall have forfeited his right to present claims of nobility in the future either for himself or for the children whom he now has.[4]
Original text in Danish
§ 1.Grevskaberne og Baroniet i Norge skulle, i Henseende til de civile Overøvrigheds-Forretningers Bestyrelse, henlægges enten under det Amt, hvori Godserne ere beliggende, eller under nærmeste Amt; dog maae Grevskaberne til sammen udgjøre et Amt, hvis det naadigst maatte behage Hans Majestæt for dem at udnævne egen Overøvrighed.
Forretningernes Overtagelse af vedkommende Amtmænd skal skee fra 1ste October dette Aar.
§ 2.Saasnart de nu beskikkede Overbirkedommere afgaae, skal i foranførte Districter, alle Sagers Paakjendelse i anden Instants, og andre til Overbirkethingene henhørende Forretninger, henlægges under Overretten i det Stift, i hvilket Districtet er beliggende.
§ 3.Den Grever, Baroner og Adelsmænd, ifølge deres Privilegier eller Lovene, forhen tilkommende Ret, at beskikke eller foreslaae geistlige eller civile Embedsmænd paa deres Godser er, ifølge Grundlovens 21 §, aldeles ophævet.
§ 4.Ligeledes skal det saakaldte Hals og Haand, eller den Adelen paalagte Forpligtelse, at lade Forbrydere paa dens Godser anholde, tiltale og afstraffe, samt den deraf flydende Adelen tilkommende Sigt- og Sagefaldsret, for Eftertiden være ophævet, saa at der herefter, i Henseende til Forbryderes Anholdelse, Tiltale og Afstraffelse, saavelsom Bøders Erlæggelse, paa Adelens Godser, skal forholdes efter de almindelige i Riget gjeldende Regler.
§ 5.Den Grever og Baroner for nærværende Tid tilkommende Skatte- eller Tiendefrihed for deres Hovedgaards Taxter og for en vis Qvantitet underliggende Bøndergods, saavelsom den Skatte- eller Tiendefrihed, der tilkommer adelige Sædegaardseiere for deres paaboende Hovedgaarde, skal ophøre med de nuværende Lehnsbesiddere eller Eiere, og ikke gaae over paa deres eftermænd.
§ 6.De øvrige den nuværende Adels privilegier og Forrettigheder skulle, forsaavidt de ikke stride imod Grundlovens 108 §, vedblive for de Adelsmænd, som for nærværende Tid ere i Besiddelse deraf, og for deres, ved denne Lovs Bekjendtgjørelse, i lovligt Ægteskab fødte Børn, saaledes, at disse fremdeles beholde samme for deres Livstid, saafremt de for næste ordentlige Storthing lovligen bevise deres Adkomst dertil. Efter de Personers Død, som saaledes vedblive i Besiddelse af visse adelige Rettigheder, ophører alt arveligt Adelskab her i Riget.
§ 7.Enhver, som ikke for næste ordentlige Storthing ved lovlige Documenter beviser sit Adelskab, skal have tabt sin Ret til, for Fremtiden at gjøre Paastand derpaa, enten for sig selv eller for sine nu havende Børn.
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References
↑ Johan Ernst Sars, Norges politiske historie 1815–1885, Supplement to Verdens Gang, Kristiania: Andersen, 1904, OCLC2179638, p. 52(in Norwegian)
↑ Norge i det nittende aarhundrede: Tekst og billeder af norske forfattere og Kunstnere, ed. Nordahl Rolfsen, E. Werenskiold, et al., volume 1 Kristiania: Cammermeyer, 1900, OCLC61074729, p. 140(in Norwegian)
↑ Lov ang. modifikasjon og nærmere bestemmelse av den norske adels rettigheder 1.8 1821Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine at Adelsprosjektet, notes 5 and 6 from Julius August S. Schmidt, ed. Love, Anordninger og Tractater, Resolutioner, Kundgjørelser, Departementsskrivelser, Circulærer m. m. for Kongeriget Norge i Tidsrummet fra 1814-1848. Til Brug for den Lovstuderende udtogsviis udgivne, volume 1, 1814–1831, Christiania, 1849, p. 334 (in Norwegian)
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