Abolition of Magdeburg Rights (1831)
The abolition of the traditional system of municipal self-government: "The final liquidation of Magdeburg law on the western Ukrainian lands took place in 1786, and in the cities of Central and Left-Bank Ukraine – in 1831 (in Kyiv – 1834)"[1] – the final stage of embedding the cities into the imperial administrative-judicial system, begun as early as the reforms of the 1780s.
Actors
| ID | Name | Procedures |
|---|---|---|
| G0009 | Russian Empire | 2 |
Instruments Applied
| ID | Name | Procedures |
|---|---|---|
| S0008 | Government | 2 |
Procedures Carried Out
The abolition of traditional local self-government: "The final liquidation of Magdeburg law… in the cities of Central and Left-Bank Ukraine – in 1831 (in Kyiv – 1834)"[1] – the cities were transferred to the empire-wide municipal order.
The displacement of the native language from the official sphere of the cities: with the liquidation of the remnants of Magdeburg self-government, the last institutional support for the local legal tradition disappeared – Ukrainian-language court proceedings had been curtailed as early as the extension of the all-Russian judicial system in the 1780s[1].