Perpetual Edict (1611)

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Perpetual Edict
Archdukes Albert and Isabella
  • Ordonnance et edict perpetuel pour meilleure direction des affaires de la justice
    Ordonnantie ende eeuwich edict tot beter directie vande saeken van Justicie
    (Decree and perpetual edict for the better direction of matters of justice)
Territorial extent Spanish Netherlands
Enacted byArchdukes Albert and Isabella
Signed by Louis Verreycken
Signed12 July 1611;411 years ago (1611-07-12)

The Perpetual Edict of 12 July 1611 was a decree of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella governing legal process in the Southern Netherlands. It consisted of 47 clauses laying out the basic rules of criminal and civil procedure. It was printed in both Dutch and French by Rutger Velpius, printer to the court. The edict had a fundamental impact on the codification of customary law, which it did much to encourage. [1] It also placed a legal obligation on parish churches to register births, marriages and deaths (alongside the existing ecclesiastical legislation to that effect), and on local magistrates to ensure that the secular authorities obtained a copy of such registers each year (a stipulation apparently only applied in the city of Mechelen). [2]

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References

  1. Georges Martyn, "Het recht ten tijde van de aartshertogen: Codificatie en enkele fundamentele wetten", in Albert & Isabella (1598–1621): Essays edited by Werner Thomas and Luc Duerloo (Turnhout, Brepols, 1998), pp. 249-254.
  2. A. Libois, "Tekening in een parochieregister: het huwelijk", in Doorheen de nationale geschiedenis (State Archives in Belgium, Brussels, 1980), pp. 179-190.