Aristocratic Testaments in the Practice of the Diplomatic Documents until the Year 1306 Cover Image

Šlechtické testamenty v listinné praxi českých zemí do roku 1306
Aristocratic Testaments in the Practice of the Diplomatic Documents until the Year 1306

Author(s): Nad'a Štachová
Subject(s): History of Law, Civil Law
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: provincial legal culture; Czech lands;High Middle Ages; characteristic features;selected cases; documentary material; canon law; deathbed gifts;noble testaments;chosen successsions

Summary/Abstract: This contribution is based on an analysis of documentary material from the Czech lands in selected cases of the noble testaments. Emphasis is given on characteristic features of testament that distinguish it from deathbed gifts and on clarification of the extent to which scholar law, i. e. Roman and canon law, influenced the provincial legal culture and the chosen successsion.

  • Issue Year: 20/2012
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 245-256
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Czech