“Ordinances Regarding Jews” issued by the Austrian Royal Court [Present-day Austria, Czech Republic]: “1) Since […] Jews tend to bury their dead while their bodies are still warm [and] in order to put and end to this violation [of a previous ordinance] it is generally ordered that before two times 24 hours (= 48 hours) have passed, no Jew nor Christian (except in special cases of extraordinary illness) shall be buried. The local authorities (‘Kreisämter’) are to oversee and enforce this and violators shall be required to pay an appropriate fine according to their wealth.” [Researcher’s note: This Royal Court decree (‘Hofdecret’) was made public on the 19th in Moravia; in Bohemia on the 23rd; and in Galicia on May 2, 1786. While the text prohibits this practice to Jews and Christians, other similar regulations were also aimed specifically at Jewish customs.]
Oesterreichs Staatsverfassung vereinbart mit den zusammengezogenen bestehenden Gesetzen, zum Gebrauche der Staatsbeamten, Advokaten, Dekonomen, Obrigkeiten, Magistrate, Geistliche, Bürger und Bauern, zum Unterricht, für angehende Geschäftsmänner von Joseph Kropatschek, k. k. wirk. Hofkonzipisten, und öffentlichen Lehrer der Gesetzkunde und Kreisamtspraxis bei der k. k. Arzieren Leibgarde galizischer Abteilung. Zweiter Band. (Wien); (Austria’s state constitution united and merged with existing laws, for use by civil servants, lawyers, clergymen, magistrates, local-authorities, citizens, and peasants, for class [purpose of teaching], for budding businessmen by Joseph Kropatschek, r[oyal] i[imperil] Conceptionist and public teacher of law and a praxis/office at the Kreisamt [state offices] in the department of the r[oyal] i[imperil] […] Royal Guard of Galicia. Second Volume. (Vienna); Researched and Translated by Ziba Shadjaani 10/11/2018