Senųjų Lietuvos teisės šaltinų problematika išeivijos teisininkų darbuose
| Author(s) | |
|---|---|
Maksimaitis, Mindaugas | Vilniaus universitetas |
Vilniaus universiteto leidykla |
| Date Issued |
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1998 |
The article deals with the works of the emigration historians of jurisprudence J. Deveikytė, A. Plateris, J. Dainauskas, J. Kairys in which the problem of the old Lithuanian legal sources is considered. It is pointed out that the development panorama of the old legal sources of Lithuania is attended to by the emigration authors, however, in their investigations the emphasis is laid on the Lithuanian Statute, the outstanding legal monument of the 16th c. Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which has been credited with special studies, furthermore, the text of the 1529 (first edition) Lithuanian Statute in the old Slawic and Lithuanian languages has been published in Chicago. The article gives a more detailed analysis of the complex geography of the Lithuanian Statutes jurisdiction and related Russian legal sources: the Sobor Statute of 1649, the 1835 Legal Code of the Russian empire, the draft Codex of the local western provinces laws, etc. A note is made about the insufficient attention to the latter problem on the part of Lithuanian analysts.