МЕРЕ ПРОТИВ КОРУПЦИЈЕ У СРПСКОМ СРЕДЊОВЕКОВНОМ ПРАВУ
MEASURES AGAINST CORRUPTION IN SERBIAN MEDIEVAL LAW

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the regulations of medieval Serbian law that were directed against various forms of behavior that could be considered as corruption. The majority of these rules is to be found in church law, mostly in the canon regulations of the Nomocanon of Saint Sava and the Abbreviated Syntagma of Matthew Blastares – both of which acts were comprised of legal transplants from the Rhomean (Byzantine) Empire, containing mostly canon rules of the holy fathers of the Church and of the Ecumenical Councils – and are mostly (though not exclusively) directed against the sin of simony. Still, Serbian rulers have also brought regulations on this subject, expanding upon the canon law regulations in their charters and Dushan’s Code. Regulations against corruption of the secular officials are present no sooner than Dushan’s codification. They are mostly focused on punishing the corruption of judges and court officials (pristavs), but being unsusceptible to bribery is also pointed out by the law as one of the necessary qualities that all government officials should possess.

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