Appoiting the Heir’s Heir and Family Trust (Fideicommissum) in Byzantine Legal Sources Cover Image

Одређивање наследниковог наследникa и породични фидеикомис у византијским изворима
Appoiting the Heir’s Heir and Family Trust (Fideicommissum) in Byzantine Legal Sources

Author(s): Tamara Matović
Subject(s): 13th to 14th Centuries, Canon Law / Church Law
Published by: Vizantološki institut SANU
Keywords: Testamentary substitutions; Prochiros nomos; Syntagma of Matthew Blastares; “Zakon gradski”; Justinian’s Novellae (№ 108 and № 159)

Summary/Abstract: Testamentary substitutions are the subject of this article. The issue has not been fairly highlighted in the field of Byzantine studies. Definitions of this legal institute are frequent in the Byzantine legal sources, and are based on the Roman legal tradition; yet, they are sporadic, particularly in the younger codes. Researching on them could lead to better under standing of different legal stipulations, the ones found in the official and private legal codes. From there, definitions of various testametary substitutions were translated and adopted in medieval Serbian sources – “Zakon gradski“, translation of Byzantine legal code Prochiron Nomos within the Nomocanon of Saint Sava, and the Old Serbian translation of Syntagma of Matthew Blastares.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 55
  • Page Range: 201-214
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Serbian