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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 1 / 2022  
         
  Article:   ENACTED “JUS VALACHICUM” IN SOUTH TRANSYLVANIA (14TH-18TH CENTURIES).

Authors:  ELA COSMA.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.24193/subbhist.2022.1.01

Article history: Received 25.05.2022; Revised 26.07.2022;
Accepted 26.07.2022; Available online 15.09.2022.
pp. 3-20

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Abstract: Enacted “Jus Valachicum” in South Transylvania (14th-18th Centuries). The case studies presented in our approach analyse from the perspective of legal history several medieval and premodern historical documents. They reflect enactments of the Jus Valachicum in South Transylvania among the Romanians living on the Saxon Land, in Mărginimea Sibiului, and in its vicinity, in the citadel and Land of Făgăraş. Illustrations and prescriptions of enacted Romanian customary law are included in: the Romanian-Saxon peace convention of Cristian (13 January 1383); the protocol of the seat of Sălişte (16th-18th centuries); Constitutio gremialis Sedis Szeliste (1585); Cartea ocolniță from Răşinari (22 May 1488); Transmissionales in causa Possesionis Resinar contra Liberam Regiamque Civitatem Cibiniensem (1784); the Jura (Rights) of Răşinari (15th-18th centuries); the Statutes of Făgăraş (15 May 1508). These enactments of Jus Valachicum abolish the bias of a strictly oral, unwritten and unstructured Romanian customary law. They also confirm de iure the legal situation extant de facto, thus proving the long uninterrupted use of Jus Valachicum among the South-Transylvanian Romanians during the 14th-18th centuries.

Key words: Jus Valachicum, enactments of Romanian customary law, South Transylvania, Mărginimea Sibiului, Țara Făgăraşului, 14th-18th centuries
 
         
     
         
         
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