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Правовият ред в българските възрожденски еснафи
Legal Order in the Bulgarian Revival-Time Guilds

Author(s): Petya Nedeleva
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, History of Law, Civil Law, Commercial Law
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: guilds; guild organizations; legal order
Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses the concept of guild and the status of guild organizations. This also necessitates the consideration of the issues related to the legal order and administration of justice in guild organizations. The statutes, punishments, collective supplies and sales characteristic of guild organizations, unfair competition, etc were examined. In conclusion it is said that the customs of the guilds can be accepted as the first written laws of the new Bulgaria, and their court – its first judicial institution.