how legal actions can end In the matter of the Cologne merchant Hochhausen, the withdrawal of his appeal was certified through the major’s and bailiff's court at the town hall of Cologne, and then sent to Speyer.94 In the dispute of the citizens of Weiler, the “renunciation finalized and judicially certified” (beschehene[n]auch jurato bestätigte[n]Renunciation[en]) was according to the oral reports of the speakermade “optima forma”, i.e. to the records of the court of Weiler, which was submitted to the Imperial Chamber Court files in a notarial certified form.95 The trade court of Lübeck was first involved in the dispute of the bricklayers’ guild of Lübeck, before which the settlement negotiations were conducted and where the settlement agreement was ultimately formally concluded. Afterwards, themunicipal treasurer was first instructed to serve the settlement results to the appellee Stahl.96 Then the minutes of the hearing were again read out to Stahl, who had been summoned to appear at the treasury, and submitted to him for signing.97 Frequently, the written declarations were also recorded before a notary. Thus, with regard to the request of Elisabeth von Schienen (née vom Stein) against her three brothers, the withdrawal of the action was introduced to the proceedings in the form of a notarial instrument.98 Also in thecausaRübmann, a notary domiciled in Öhringen, the residence of the adverse Hohenlohe territorial authority, formally recorded the waiver of any legal steps.99 For this purpose, the notary and two witnesses in the form of the two mayors went to the count’s chancellery, where three staff members welcomed them. Rübmann then orally repeated the facts and the history of the legal action and declared upon being asked whether due to the clemency granted to him he was “most humbly contended with the graciousness already accorded and in future to be accorded to him by the Count” (mit der Ihme bereits angedyhenen und auch künfftig sich 94 StadtACologne, RKG, no. 813. 95 HStA Stuttgart, C3, fascicle no. 4671, [Q] 46. 96 StadtA Lübeck, RKG, no. M8, [Q] 36, Addendum no. C. 97 Ibid., [Q] 36, Addendum no. D. 98 HStAStuttgart, C3, fascicle no. 3797, Instrumentum renunciatae litis of notary Johann Müller, Registrar in Ulm, 1594, [Q] 13. 99 HStAStuttgart, C3, fascicle no. 3635, deed of the Öhring notary Georg Heinrich Ludwig Zaun, 10 February 1752, without [Q]. 100
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