LEGAL STUDIES AND WORKS OF JÁNOS BARANYAI DECSI
LEGAL STUDIES AND WORKS OF JÁNOS BARANYAI DECSI
Author(s): János ZlinszkySubject(s): Cultural history, History of Law, Civil Law, Hungarian Literature, 16th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Baranyai Decsi; Hungarian civil law; Roman law; law reception in the 16th century;
Summary/Abstract: In Hungary from the 16th century on there was a tendency to make a “harmonization” of the Hungarian customary law with the Roman Legal Codex. Baranyai Decsi, besides other activities, made a book on Romanisation of the Hungarian Law. The book, Syntagma institvtionvm ivris imperialis ac Vngarici… (1593) was using both the Tripartitum by Werbôczy (a legal compendium for Hungary), and the manuscript for its later variant: Quadripartitum (originally by 1552). In the autumn of 1593 Baranyai Decsi became the rector of the college at Székelyvásárhely (Transylvania). From then on, he ceased to do legal work. His book Syntagma is an interesting milestone of the reception efforts in Hungary.
Journal: Acta Ethnographica Hungarica
- Issue Year: 45/2000
- Issue No: 3-4
- Page Range: 327-336
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
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