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Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs
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I. Rechtsgeschichte des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit
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BANK AUSTRIA CREDITANSTALT, WIEN (IBAN AT04 1100 0006 2280 0100, BIC BKAUATWW), DEUTSCHE BANK MÜNCHEN (IBAN DE16 7007 0024 0238 8270 00, BIC DEUTDEDBMUC)
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Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs 10. Jahrgang Heft 2/2020, pp. 351-359, 2021/05/12
Mittel- und osteuropäische Rechtshistorische Konferenz 2019
Central and Eastern European Legal History Conference 2019
According to the Act No. 4 of 1869 on the exercise of judicial power, the judge “draws his salary from the treasury and is obliged to render justice to the parties for free, except the fees and charges imposed by law”. Then the judges’ remuneration was governed by the Act No. 32 of 1871. While the Act No. 25 of 1890 gave the judges a new status, the Act No. 4 of 1893 – contrary to the principle of the separation of administrative and judiciary power – put judges together with administrative officials into the same salary classes. From 1905 on, no year passed without the National Association of Judges and Prosecutors dealing with the question of the introduction of automatic promotion. Legal forums and essays aimed at improving the financial status of judges also occasionally raised the issue of secondary employment. The so‐called Status Act (Act No. 20 of 1920) provided that “judges and prosecutors should be removed from the salary classes for state officials and classified in their own grades”. Although the primary purpose of the Act was to regulate judges’ salaries, contemporaries thought that judges’ incomes were still insufficient.
Keywords: Hungary 19th–20th century – judges’ salary – judicial independence