In memoria non habentur. K majetkoprávní terminologii českého středověkého práva

• Authors: Jan Zelenka

Title variants

EN

In memoria non habentur. On the terminology of property rights in Czech medieval law

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article reacts to the discussion about the significance of legal terminology in medieval Czech law. It deals with the problematic property law term hereditas in medieval sources, especially in texts that fall into the land law (zemské právo, Landrecht). The article is critical of the opinion that the term hereditas had an unambiguous, defined meaning that delineated free ownership of allodial property within the land law. Instead, this article attempts to highlight the fact property law terminology remained undefined for the entire medieval period and the meaning of individual terms developed from the broader legal, social, and economic contexts.

Keywords

EN

medieval Bohemia; medieval law; law terminology; finding the law; memory; hereditas

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 119
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 7-31
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jan Zelenka

• Český časopis historický, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic