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Yugoslav private law between the two World Wars

The interwar Yugoslavia was a country which brought together different political, cultural and economic heritages ; had also unsolved national issues and poor economic growt and it was characterised by legal particularism throughout its whole existence. Interwar period in european countries was a period of comprehensive modernization of law. Yugoslavia was not immune to this trend, but modernization of the law was an aspect of the legal unification and it meant in the first place overcoming legal particularism. Modernization efforts persisted irrespective of the political situation in the country ; legislative initiative did not abate during the dictatorship which in this field was no less productive than the parliamentary rule. Also, the achived results did not always comply with the efforts undertaken.This long lasting process in some law branches did not even reach the end or was left unfinished (for example the unification and codification of civil law). Therefore, it became a common place in the legal history of the interwar Yugoslavia to speak of unified and non unified law branches. Private law fell within both categories.

modernization; private law

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