Published: 2019-04-17

‘But Neither was Polish Law Derived from any other Source’: On a Forgotten Opinion on the Role of Roman Law in Prepartitional Poland

Sławomir Godek
Zeszyty Prawnicze
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2019.19.1.04

Abstract

In 1818 Jozafat Zaleski, a Pole lecturing in law at Polotsk University, published a treatise on lawyers’ need of knowledge of Roman law, addressing the controversial issue of the importance of Roman law in the pre-partitional Poland. He took the view that Roman law had a signifcant impact on Polish law, in particular upon the Statutes of Casimir the Great, the Lithuanian Statute and municipal law.

Keywords:

Roman law, pre-partitional Poland, Polotsk University.

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Godek, S. (2019). ‘But Neither was Polish Law Derived from any other Source’: On a Forgotten Opinion on the Role of Roman Law in Prepartitional Poland. Zeszyty Prawnicze, 19(1), 73–84. https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2019.19.1.04

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