High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Habsburg Law (in full, the Law concerning the Expulsion and the Takeover of the Assets of the House Habsburg-Lorraine) was a law originally passed by the Constituting National Assembly (Konstituierende Nationalversammlung) of German Austria, one of the successor states of dismantled Austria-Hungary, on April 3, 1919, which legally dethroned the House of Habsburg-Lorraine as rulers of the country which had declared itself a republic on November 12, 1918, and confiscated their property. The Habsburg Law was repealed in 1935 and the Habsburg family was given back its property. However, in 1938, following the Anschluss, the Nazis reintroduced the Habsburg Law and again confiscated the Habsburg family`s property and banned the family from the country.