The Allgemeines Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch für die gesamten Deutschen Erbländer der österreichischen Monarchie (ABGB; “General civil code for all hereditary German territories of the Austrian monarchy”) was created during the reforms inaugurated by enlightened absolutism, which fused the so-called “hereditary German territories” (“Deusche Erbländer”) of the Habsburg monarchy into a single state with a uniform administrative (Local authority) and legal s…