The paper is devoted to the application processing procedure for granting wedding permission to the Jewish population after the introduction of the Familiant Law of 1726. The study concentrates on the written material of the administration with the competence for Bohemia. The agenda was in the competence of the Jewish Commission that was established in 1714 in connection with attempts to restrict the Jewish population. The issuance of the Familiant Law was accompanied by a number of measures, which were reflected in the written production not only of the Jewish Commission but of other offices as well. Examples of these documents and those directly related to the processing of applications for wedding permission, from submission to conclusion, document the whole process of implementing the law and the practical course of the approval procedure.
The essence of the study is an analysis of the so-called "Majestätsquaterne", special series of the Moravian Land Registers (Landtafeln), which recorded the admission of new members to the community of Moravian land estates in the period 1642–1852. As part of this so-called habilitation process in the land, the applicant had to prove that he had an incolat and aristocratic status (by means of an incolat and ennoblement charter), swear a personal oath of loyalty to the monarch (by means of intimation of the Court Chancery) and submit a binding statement in the written form of Relation to the Land (Revers zum Lande) to the land government (i.e., a written oath to uphold the land's constitution, laws, and customs). The study outlines the habilitation process in the land and then goes on to address: the formal and content aspects of the "Majestätsquaterne"; the role of the court and land administrations involved; and individual depositors and the written material produced by them. It reconstructs the practise of registration and shows the resulting compositional scheme of individual registred documents and their classification according to traditional diplomatic categories, including an evaluation of selected internal and external features.