THE MATRIMONIAL PROPERTY REGIME AND THE POSITION OF WOMEN UNDER MEDIEVAL STATUTES IN KVARNER AND ISTRIA: A GLIMPSE FORWARD
THE MATRIMONIAL PROPERTY REGIME AND THE POSITION OF WOMEN UNDER MEDIEVAL STATUTES IN KVARNER AND ISTRIA: A GLIMPSE FORWARD

Summary/Abstract: In the medieval Croatia, the position of women regarding their property rights, particularly property ownership in marriage and its management, was regulated by statutory provisions that drew upon the Roman-Byzantine legal tradition, while also incorporating influences from Croatian and Venetian law. The paper is focused on the scrutiny of the matrimonial property rights position of women in medieval Rijeka based on the provisions of the Rijeka Statute from 1530 and the Book of the Rijeka Chancellor and Notary Antun de Renno de Mutina from the mid-15th century. It compares the regulation of the matrimonial property regime in medieval Rijeka with the Cres Statute and Istrian statutes, primarily concerning the clarification of issues related to community of property and the joint management of spouses' assets. With the aim of highlighting the progressive solutions of medieval statutes, particularly those of Rijeka and Istria, their provisions will be compared with the contemporary regulation of matrimonial property regime in Croatian law, as well as selected comparative European legal systems.

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