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The Opus Tripartitum as an Original Source of Law as well as a Source of Knowledge about Custom in Light of Late Modern Age Hungarian Jurisprudence

Publication date: 19.12.2018

Cracow Studies of Constitutional and Legal History, Volume 11 (2018), Volume 11, Issue 4, pp. 467 - 479

https://doi.org/10.4467/20844131KS.18.039.9481

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Adriana Švecová
Trnava University in Trnava, Hornopotočná 23, 918 43 Trnava, Slovakia
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Miriam Laclavíková
Trnava University in Trnava, Hornopotočná 23, 918 43 Trnava, Slovakia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8984-0529 Orcid
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The Opus Tripartitum as an Original Source of Law as well as a Source of Knowledge about Custom in Light of Late Modern Age Hungarian Jurisprudence

Abstract

The objective of the study is to introduce late modern age legal opinions on custom and its place among sources of law in the Hungarian legal system. It focuses especially on the characteristics and functions of custom and clarifies the relationship between custom and the law as such (lex, act) as another source of law. The Hungarian modern age is characterised by a symbiosis between custom and the law and by a related dispute about how they relate to eachother. The authors of the study focused their attention on a dispute over the derogatory function of custom in relation to the law and highlighted the trend of a major effort towards codification and the related growing importance of lex as a source of law. At the same time custom was losing its “folk character” and gradually gained a forensic form (custom formally included as a basis for court decisions). In Hungarian legal history, custom held an irreplaceable position among sources of law in the legal system, and modern age jurisprudence scholars attempted to develop or reformulate the theoretical principles enshrined in the Opus Tripartitum (1514) (J. Szegedi, S. Huszty, E. Kelemen, A. Kövy, P. Szlemenics, I. Frank, etc.).

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Information: Cracow Studies of Constitutional and Legal History, Volume 11 (2018), Volume 11, Issue 4, pp. 467 - 479

Article type: Original article

Titles:

English: The Opus Tripartitum as an Original Source of Law as well as a Source of Knowledge about Custom in Light of Late Modern Age Hungarian Jurisprudence
Polish: Opus Tripartitum jako oryginalne źródło prawa i źródło wiedzy o zwyczaju w świetle węgierskiej jurysprudencji epoki późnonowożytnej

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8502-1139

Adriana Švecová
Trnava University in Trnava, Hornopotočná 23, 918 43 Trnava, Slovakia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8502-1139 Orcid
All publications →

Trnava University in Trnava, Hornopotočná 23, 918 43 Trnava, Slovakia

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8984-0529

Miriam Laclavíková
Trnava University in Trnava, Hornopotočná 23, 918 43 Trnava, Slovakia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8984-0529 Orcid
All publications →

Trnava University in Trnava, Hornopotočná 23, 918 43 Trnava, Slovakia

Published at: 19.12.2018

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