THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1583, sig. 109-4/1337

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18 - 18 - contract fills in particular that the purchase price is not fixed; it is not yet established, but is to be determined only later by the official tax commission appointed by the Reichsprotektor in accordance with the guidelines given to it. The purchase price should not be paid at all, but should be credited to the seller at the Ent= indemnity bank - a step which is not permissible at all because the law provides for compensation and expropriation in the course of the land reform. However, the land reform has long since been carried out on the designated property and the remaining property has been released. The validity of the contract of sale will be combated by means of legal remedies and remedies under the rights of the Protectorate; however, it is highly questionable whether these will be accompanied by success, since the courts of the Frotektorate will, in accordance with experience, be subject to the instructions of the German authorities in the Protectorates. Otherwise, the land registry judge should not have allowed the registration of the property on the basis of the purchase contract=, since it is unreliable according to the land register. Until then Count Rudolf Czernin was registered as owner, the coercive owner is obviously not legitimated for the sale of the whole property on account of the legal provision. However, the fact that it is the whole property is evident from the purchase= contract. In the case of Cèlloredo-Mannsfeld, the