Court records

In Sweden, court records in earlier times dealt with a whole host of different types of topics. Court records, therefore, contain both legal documents from criminal cases and reports on and resolutions to civil disputes, as well as the handling of various administrative matters. There were both secular and ecclesiastical courts, as well as courts for urban and rural areas, special courts for certain domains and different levels of the judiciary.

Court records are a rich and varied material that contain vast, detailed information about the activities people actually engaged in to support themselves.

En dombok på ett fönsterbräde.

The following court records can be found in the database GaW

Från Stockholm

Städer, övriga Sverige

Landsbygden, häradsrätter

Övrigt

(Updated February 2024)

Century

Number of cases

Number of words source text

1500-talet

209

39 853

1600-talet

2 658

447 439

1700-talet

1 798

397 528

1800-talet

673

157 289

Totalt

5 338

1 042 109

FOLLOW UPPSALA UNIVERSITY ON

facebook
instagram
twitter
youtube
linkedin