Istraživanja Valtazara Bogišića plemenskog društva u Crnoj Gori, Hercegovini i Albaniji
Legal-sociological Researches about Tribes in Montenegro, Herzegovina and Albania by Valtazar Bogišić

Summary/Abstract: Valtazar Bogišić (1834–1908) is primarily known as a codifier of civil law in Montenegro, i. e. as the author of the Codex of the Civil Proprietary Law for the Principality Montenegro from1888. He was preparing this codex according to the request of Prince Nikola of Montenegro and the order of the Russian government because he was a professor at the University of Odessa. Born close neighbourhood of Montenegro (Cavtat, near Dubrovnik), educated Venice, Viena, Giessen and Paris, Bogišić studied common law and legal history of Slavonic peoples. He commenced his studies while he was working AustroHungary (1863–1869), particulary Viena and southern parts of Hungary (Banat). When Bogišić came Montenegro 1873, he commenced preparing material for his codex, especially on the basis of the voluminous questionaire (about 2000 questions), wich he comleted up to the end of that year. One of informers was Marko Miljanov Popović (1833–1901), the leader of the Kuchi tribe (partially with an Albanian etnolinguistic component), at the border of Montenegro and Albania. He was also well acquainted with the common law of neighbouring tribes of Grude, Hoti iKastrati, who respected him very much. In this way Bogišić came to know considerably common law of these tribes, primarily in the sphere of civil law relationships. He carefully compared these norms of common law with the similar norms Montenegro and Herzegovina.

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