Богоје Радинчић из Гацка – Домазетство између службе (servitium) и посињења (affiliatio)
Bogoje Radinčić from Gacko – Acceptance of Son-In-Law to the Household between Service (Servitium) and Adoption (Affiliatio)

Summary/Abstract: Bogoje Radinčić from Gacko promised in the mid 90s of the XIV century that he will marry Mara, daughter of Tvrdin Ozrojević from Rijeka Dubrovačka, after she reaches the legal age. He also promised Tvrdin to remain with him in the period of the next fifteen years, serve him and listen to him „as a father“. Future father-in-law, in turn, agreed to receive the adopted son-in-law (gener affiliatus) to his house and give him the food and clothing and also to guide, protect and watch over him „as his own son“. After Bogoje’s wedding with his daughter Mara, Tvrdin would continue to support both of them in his house and would give them, after the contract expires, the third part of all property which he owned. If the accepted son-in-law „canceled obedience“ or left his in-laws arbitrary and without guilt of others, father-in-law was not obliged to give him anything, not even for the time spent with him in the same household. If, on the other hand, Tvrdin expelled Bogoje or his future wife Mara before the aforementioned deadline without their guilt, he had to, as „pater familias“, give them a third of possessions he owned at the time, in proportion to the length of time that the expelled son-in-law spent with his strict and imperious father-in-law. To make this contract, without which such agreement would be null, obligatory and binding, the authorities of Dubrovnik authorized the representative of Tvrdin, ser Ivan Menčetić, to conduct, if needed, an investigation of both sides and make the appropriate decision that would be final and as such would exclude the possibility of any appeal.

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