SOCIETAS OF ROMAN LAW IN BOSNIAN MEDIEVAL LAW Cover Image

Societas rimskog prava u bosanskom srednjovjekovnom pravu
SOCIETAS OF ROMAN LAW IN BOSNIAN MEDIEVAL LAW

Author(s): Dževad Drino
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Bošnjačka zajednica kulture "Preporod"
Keywords: Bosnian Medieval law; Roman law; societas; trade law

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary constitutional-legal documentation shows us guarantee of basic human rights, and many of them have emerged from Roman tradition, and thus to new affirmation of right to freedom of association, whose distant origins, according to great Roman lawyer Gaius, were found in Code, plate XII, 451/450 B. C. Joining for the purpose of making profit, partnership (societas) is an issue of early legal history, and nowadays it represents fundamental guideline of western culture in the area of trade development. In this paper we will pay attention to Roman substratum of partnership in law of medieval Bosnian state. In the same time, under the term of Bosnian medieval law, in a historical sense, this implies that the entire law, from early Middle Age to fall of Kingdom in 1463, was applied on area of Banate, as regards from 1377 - Kingdom of Bosnia. In this matter, legal forms of partnership of Bosnian Medieval law, from initial elements such as giving the cattle „grazing“ through societas with seaside, especially Ragusian merchants, brought the issue that Bosnian King made trade association with strangers.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 169-180
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bosnian