Transylvanian Law Regarding Children (1780-1834)
Transylvanian Law Regarding Children (1780-1834)

Summary/Abstract: This work is based on a series of decrees issued by authorities of the Transylvanian Principate between 1780-1834. The purpose for indexing and interpretating these documents was to discover those references making the child related issues a distinct point in the Transylvanian laws at the border between 18th and 19th. The documents that were identified and analyzed draw some light on the laws concerning the family and the child (these latest being of special interest), in use in Transylvania until the Austrian Civil Code of 1853. The aim of researche was to put accent on one of the multiple approaches of child related problems. I had a particular interest in seeing sources that had the potential of offering answers to this problem. So, in this paper I interpreted several imperial and gubernial decrees and ordinances, in order to see if this problem was already a distinct one at the dawn of the modern Romanian Transylvanian world.

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