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The paper deals with the stance of the medieval law system on the legal status of women in coexistence with various life and legal situations, namely their representations in Magdeburg Law. Standardized form of many paragraphs of these German laws codes from 1378, which were translated into ancient Slovak language in the town Žilina (in 1473), shows both, the legal security of a woman, as well as the rigour of a certain law. By following and clarifying of mentioned relations it explains the use of several juridical institutes, that represent not only German, but also Slovak cultural legal language of the 15th century.