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Review of the regulation of some civil law issues in the charter of the free royal city of Osijek

The lack of legal sources of late medieval and early modern history, when it comes to Eastern Croatia, i.e. Slavonia, has been emphasised in legal literature several times. For this reason, the study of the development and characteristics of particular legal institutes is limited to the provisions of the statutes of certain Slavonian cities and the sources of customary law that were valid in that period. The legal issues that are going to be analysed in this research, and which are in the area of property law, law of obligations and inheritance law have in some cases been of particular importance for the economic development of Osijek. This is confirmed by the fact that some of them are regulated by the Charter of the Free Royal City of Osijek from 1809. Given that the very brief text of the Charter could not cover the essential characteristics of certain institutes relevant to this research political and economic Minutes of the free royal city of Osijek are going to serve as a valuable resource for studying their characteristics. Bearing in mind the period this research is dealing with, we should not be surprised, even at the early beginning, by the presence of feudal elements in the regulation of the mentioned legal issues. A brief review of the same issues in the other statutes of Slavonian cities is going to attempt to determine whether the regulation mentioned is a distinctive characteristic of this urban environment or it is, however, characterised by common elements in relation to other mentioned city statutes.

civil law issues ; the free royal city of Osijek ; economic development ; feudal elements ; statutes of Slavonian cities

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