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Category: Translation - Other
Approval Date: 3/1/2026 2:15 PM
Family Surname: Henoch (and Hirsch) Schmerling
Country: Poland
Town: Tarnow

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LATIN. Legal document in a Register. Tarnow, Galicia (Poland). c. 1822 (related to earlier case, 1799).
Land / property case.
Please kindly translate. Is this a house purchase? Thank you.
The screenshot does not contain one or two bottom lines, as you need to scroll down on the original register (upload). URL: https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=pg&id=3645&se=&sy=2&kt=&plik=218.jpg this is image 218 from this index: https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/id3645-sy2-se There are 3 images (pages 442-6 of the register).
Please also see URL: Next pages, via Image 219: [https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=pg&id=3645&se=&sy=2&kt=&plik=219.jpg]
Next pages, via image 220 [https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=pg&id=3645&se=&sy=2&kt=&plik=220.jpg&x=0&y=0&zoom=6.25
c. 1822 (related to earlier case, 1799).
Land / property case.
Is this a house purchase? or an "ingrossation" which meant something like 'information entered into a mortgage register?
Thank you.

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3/1/2026 8:45 PM

I believe this record is in multiple languages- the other possibly being German? (a language I don’t know). But I can help with the definitely-Latin heading halfway down page 442.
———
Tarnow die 31 Xmbris 1823
Magistratus Tarnovieusis ad petitum judai Henoch Schmerling — praes 22 Octobris relatt 31 Xmbris 1823 ad Nm 1546 — Contractum Emti Venditi tenoris sequentis …
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Tarnow, the 31st day of December 1823
the Magistracy of Tarnów, at the request of the Jew Henoch Schmerling — presented on the 22nd of October, reported on the 31st of December 1823 under No. 1546 — [records] a Contract of Purchase and Sale of the following content …
———
Based on context, my assumption is that Schmerling was the purchaser of whatever is being sold. But you’d need someone to translate the rest of this document to be 100% sure.

3/3/2026 9:46 AM

the German part on the left page, after the already translated Latin introduction, definitly talks about the purchase by Hersch Schmerling of a house #183 that was inherited by three children of age of the couple David and Channa Gruenhut, Hersch Gruenhut, Aba Gruenhut and Rachel Gruenhut, each one now owner of one third of the house. Then the cut off lines.
The German part on the right page deals with a detailed description of how the house was purchased in 1799 by the couple Gruenhut and passed on to their legal heirs, location, size, etc. I don't see the name Schmerling mentioned there.

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