Lüneburg Sate
The Lüneburg Sate or Treaty of Lüneburg was a territorial agreement between the territorial lord and the estates in the Principality of Lüneburg established in 1392.
The treaty established a legal body whose function was to secure the rights of its members. To this end, a court, called the Satekollegium, was formed. Membership of the rulers in this body was in return for the granting of a loan to the sum of 50,000 Mark löt in bonds and was tied to the duration of the loan so that the Lüneburg Sate was in effect a mortgage contract. Besides the actual Sate letter, the treaty included three other letters, which described in detail the rights of the individual estates. The Lüneburg Sate entered into force in 1392, but ended de facto after the Sate War in 1396. It was formally rescinded in 1519.
