Gdańsk law

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The Gdańsk Law (German Danziger Willkuer; Polish Gdański Wilkierz) was the official set of records of the laws of Gdańsk (Danzig), the capital city of the Royal Prussia, a province of Poland. The models for the Gdańsk Law were the statute books of the Holy Roman Empire and of other Hanseatic cities, especially Lübeck, a sister city of Gdańsk.

The official copies of laws were certified by attaching seals (sigilla) as means of authentication. (The earliest known seal of the city of Gdańsk of 1224 was inscribed, in capital letters, Sigillum Burgensium in Dantzike, Latin/German of the empire for "Seal of the burghers in Gdańsk".)

The earliest known law code of Gdańsk was entitled: "The Laws of the Sea and Trade City of Gdańsk, 1597". The law codes of Gdańsk were reprinted in 1732 by Seelmann in Gdańsk, and occasionally thereafter in other places.

The Gdańsk Law was supplanted, by laws of the Kingdom of Prussia, following the Prussian annexation of Gdańsk in the Second Partition of Poland in 1793.

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