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there was no ''Inkolat''; admission into the community of the state nobility was there much easier. The award of the ''Inkolat'' conferred on the recipient the ability to purchase or acquire noble estates, the right to participate in the state councils, and the permission to apply for positions that were reserved for the members of the Estates. Until the

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the award of the ''Inkolat'' was the only way to determine the status of a prospective candidate. After the failure of the

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reserved the right to confer the ''Inkolat'' with his ''Verneuerte Landesordnung'' enewed Constitutionof 1627. With the end of the feudal rights and privileges in 1848, the ''Inkolat'' lost most of its meaning and prestige.

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* (de) Christian d'Elvert: “''Das Incolat, die Habilitirung zum Lande, die Erbhuldigung und der Intabulations-Zwang in Mähren und Oesterr.-Schlesien''” he Inkolat, the Qualifications of the Land, the Hereditary Privileges and the Compulsory Registration in Moravia and Austrian Silesia In: ''Notizenblatt der historisch-statistischen Section der Kais. königl. mährisch-schlesischen Gesellschaft zur Beförderung des Ackerbaues, der Natur- und Landeskunde'' ournal of the Historical-Statistical Section of the Imperial and Royal Moravian-Silesian Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Nature and Geography 1882, pages 17–18, 29–32, 47–48, 51-55 * (de) Arnold Luschin von Ebengreuth: “''Inkolat, Indigenat in den altösterreichischen Landen'' nkolat, Naturalization in the Old Austrian Lands��. In: Ernst Mischler and Josef Ulbrich, eds.: ''Österreichisches Staatswörterbuch, 2. Band'' ustrian State Dictionary, 2nd Volume Vienna 1906, pp. 886 ff. * (de) B. Rieger: ''Inkolat, Indigenat in Böhmen'' nkolat, Naturalization in Bohemia In: Ernst Mischler and Josef Ulbrich, eds.: ''Österreichisches Staatswörterbuch, 2. Band'' ustrian State Dictionary, 2nd Volume Vienna 1906, pp. 897 ff. {{Authority control Austrian nobility Nobility from Bohemia