DEPENDENT PEASANTS IN THE DISTRICT OF KOTOR IN THE 14TH CENTURY
DEPENDENT PEASANTS IN THE DISTRICT OF KOTOR IN THE 14TH CENTURY
Author(s): Nevenka Bogojević-GluščevićSubject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, History of Law, Civil Law, Canon Law / Church Law, EU-Legislation
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: kolon; glebae adscripus; posadnicus; Statuta et leges civitatis Cathari; 14th centu-ry; Medieval Serbia; Roman law; Late Roman Empire
Summary/Abstract: In this paper, the author performs a normative analysis of the provisions of the Mediaeval Kotor statute from the 14th century relating to the position of the dependent population (called posadnicus) in Kotor District. To this end, it also explains the social miles in which these provisions were adopted taking into account the opportunities and life in Kotor, which was within the time of the statute of the Serbian mediaeval state as an autonomous city at the peak of its development. The rules of Statute in practice have been processed by analyzing the archive material from that period. In order to explain the priority legal influences on the position of the dependent peasants in the Kotor District, the comparison of this regulation with the rules of the Roman Law on the position of the dependent people (colonus) in the period of the Late Roman Empire is done.
Journal: IUS ROMANUM
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 251-274
- Page Count: 24
- Language: Bulgarian