Establishing the Hereditary Ownership of Citizen's Villages in the Pinsky County of Davyd-Haradok Parish

In today’s Congressional session, an important act was adopted that concerns our compatriots in the Polish-Ukrainian-Lithuanian-Belarusian Union. The President, with the consent of the Houses of Congress, reviewed the ancestral privileges of several villages in the Pinsky County of the Davyd-Haradok Parish. Acknowledging the history of land grants without any dues or obligations, except for military service, the act reaffirms the hereditary ownership bestowed by princes and former kings—specifically referencing the 1566 privilege by King Sigismund August during the grand Congress in Vilnius.

With this act, the inheritors of these villages are exclusively subjected to local and state Congress jurisdictions for any legal matters, emphasizing the villagers’ independence from various larger estate regulations. This historic move protects the rights and customs of the local landowners, ensuring that future generations will have the same freedoms as established by their forebears.

Topics: Hereditary village grants; Nobility privileges; Villages of Berezne, Uholec, Horodec, Olpień, Remie, Moczule, Welemicze, Lybro, Białohusza; Pińsk County; Dawidgrodecka Parish; Sigismund August; Military service.;