ПРИМЕНА НЕКИХ ВИДОВА РЕГАЛНОГ ПРАВА НА ПОДРУЧЈУ ЈУЖНЕ УГАРСКЕ У СРЕДЊЕМ BEKУ
APPLICATION OF SOME REGAL RIGHTS IN THE SOUTH HUNGARY IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Summary/Abstract: While taking as his starting point the Ronkal Constitution of Friedrich I Barbarossa on regalia (1158), the author attempts, by using examples, to determine that in the Middle Ages some regal rights, contained in that Constitution have been in application in the north-east Yugoslavia too. Out of the total number of eighteen kinds of regalia known from the Constitution, the author has succeeded to prove such application in the above mentoned territory of even sixteen of them. Grouped by subject- -matter, they amount to the right to collect contributions covering the trade by land and water communications, which go across his territory. They include also the share in revenue from exploitation of some kinds of natural resources (salt, fishing and precious metals), as well as taxina the trade in such resources. The right of the ruler included also the use of royal residences. The existence of such mansions has been proved, as the author indicates, on the ground of written sources. The king was entitled to dispose of certain categories of estates (vacant estates, lands of a perpetrator who insulted the majesty, and estates of political culprits). The author mentions certain cases of cofiscation and repeated donations of such kind of estates in the mentioned territory. Finally, among the regal rights which were applied in that territory, the author notes down also the nomination of state officials and imposing of extraordinary contributions. While not entering into the issue of whether the regalia stem from the Roman law, the author points out at the circumstance that they were applied in the Middle Ages in the territory of north-east Yugoslavia by the Hungarian state, since that territory was under its rule at the time.

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