THE INFLUENCE OF ROMAN TRADITION ON THE HERITAGE IN KOSOVO
THE INFLUENCE OF ROMAN TRADITION ON THE HERITAGE IN KOSOVO

Summary/Abstract: The heritage was born in a certain period of historical development of society, but over time it has evolved like any other legal institution in terms of inheritance law system in part of legislation, in relation to different countries, but also numerous similarities between their systems, but always maintaining the basis in Roman law. Inheritance as one of the institutions of private law in general and civil law in particular is considered one of the oldest institutions that was initially regulated by customary norms, where the inheritance measure presents the basis for inheritance call. Roman inheritance law, which had gone through three stages of its development from the Lex XII Tabullarum until the final regulation of inheritance law within the framework of the Justinian Code, when often with the development of productive forces and the raising of human consciousness in the community primitive, where in contrast to slave owning society there was the right of inheritance based on customs inherited primarily by boys, while unmarried girls were entitled to dowry and only legitimate children. Inheritance is one of the most important institutes of civil law, and constitutes one of the ways of gaining property due to death or mortis causa, compared to all other ways of gaining property, which are between the living or inter vivos. It follows that our law in general Albanian law has been influenced for centuries starting from the customary Kanun law to the modern inheritance law.

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