Vrijeme i okolnosti postanka Novigradskog zbornika
Origins of Novigrad collection of Croatian common law

Summary/Abstract: The article researches the origins of manuscript known as Novigrad collection of Croatian common law. It can be concluded that the manuscript was written in 1452, and was supplemented in 1454. It is possible that Venetian authorities also gave consent to that document during that same year. It is obvious that this document was written by a social group who wanted to uphold and protect its own particular interests. Accordingly all similar documents of common law must be understood in the same way. Its legal and historical elements must be supplemented with the understanding of social circumstances in which these collections of common law were written.

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