Court decree, issued by Emperor Joseph II for Galicia [Present-day Ukraine, Poland]: “To prevent circumventions of the law that allows Jews to build only houses made from hard materials, Jews shall be prohibited from buying houses that are in Christian hands, if the same are not built from hard materials.” [Researcher’s note: This decree was promulgated in Galicia on May 3, 1787.]
Moesle, Johann Georg (pub.). Handbuch aller unter der Regierung des Kaisers Joseph des II. für die K.K. Erbländer ergangenen Verordnungen und Gesetze in einer Sistematischer Verbindung: enthält die Verordnungen und Gesetze vom Jahre 1787. Vierzehnter Band (Handbook of all ordinances and laws issued under the government of Emperor Joseph II for the royal-imperial hereditary lands, in a systematic connection: contains the ordinances and laws of the year 1787. Volume 14.) Moesle: Vienna, 1789. Page 533. Researched by Dominik Jacobs 4/16/2020