PLEQNIA AS THE TRADITIONAL DISPUTE SETTLEMENT INSTITUTION OF THE ALBANIANS IN KOSOVO Cover Image

PLEĆNIJA U OBIČAJNOM PONAŠANJU KOD ALBANACA NA KOSOVU
PLEQNIA AS THE TRADITIONAL DISPUTE SETTLEMENT INSTITUTION OF THE ALBANIANS IN KOSOVO

Author(s): Milenko Karan
Subject(s): Criminal Law, Civil Law, Criminology, Sociology of Law
Published by: Српско социолошко друштво
Keywords: Kosovo; Albanians; Pleqnia;

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the emergence, evolution and functions of the pleqnia — the customary dispute settlement institution of the Albanian's, widely used in the .time when there was no state created law. Its positive function consisted in settling disputes among families in conflict, and thus ending feuds in general and blood feuds in particular.

  • Issue Year: 17/1983
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 115-127
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Serbian