The legislative activity of the Duke of Mazovia Janusz I of Warsaw 1381-1429

Patrycja Herod

doi:10.21697/sc.2016.23.09en

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Vol. 23 (2016)

The legislative activity of the Duke of Mazovia Janusz I of Warsaw 1381-1429

Patrycja Herod

Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings

Section: Rozprawy i Artykuły

https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2016.23.09en

Abstract

The article presents the legislative activity of Janusz I of Warsaw who from 1381 was an independent ruler of the Eastern Mazovia. It also offers an analysis of 15 legal instruments including 14 statutes and one landed privilege, which is the oldest known act of this type from the region of Mazovia delivered 21^st June 1414 in Nowe Miasto for both the Czersk and Warsaw nobility. The article further deals with the division of specific regulations into criminal and private law, which includes marriage and family law, the law of succession, property law, obligations, the right of peasants to leave a village belonging to a feudal master as well as court proceedings. The article finishes with the presentation of the research results.

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Mazovian law, Mazovian statutes, landed privileges, Janusz I of Warsaw

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Herod, P. (2021). The legislative activity of the Duke of Mazovia Janusz I of Warsaw 1381-1429. Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings, 23(1), 102–123. https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2016.23.09en

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Patrycja Herod

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WNHiS UKSW, Warszawa Poland

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Patrycja Ewa Herod, PhD - a historian and a lawyer practising as an advocate in the Warsaw Bar Association. The main subject of her research interest is the history of the Middle Ages, with particular emphasis on the history of law and the Mazovian land.