Appoiting the heir’s heir and family trust (fideicommissum) in Byzantine legal sources

Tamara, Matović

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Testamentary substitutions are the subject of this article. The issue has not been fairly highlighted in the field of Byzantine studies. Definitions of this legal institute are frequent in the Byzantine legal sources, and are based on the Roman legal tradition; yet, they are sporadic, particularly in the younger codes. Researching on them could lead to better understanding of different legal stipulations, the ones found in the official and private legal codes. From there, definitions of various testametary substitutions were translated and adopted in medieval Serbian sources - “Zakon gradski“, translation of Byzantine legal code Prochiron Nomos within the Nomocanon of Saint Sava, and the Old Serbian translation of Syntagma of Matthew Blastares. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 177032: Tradicija, inovacija, identitet u vizantijskom svetu]

Прохирон, Синтагма Матије Властара, “Zakon gradski”, Blastares, Justinian’s Novellae (№ 108 and № 159), Prochiros nomos, Syntagma of Matthew, Testamentary substitutions, Закон градски, Јустинијанове Новеле (бр. 108 и 159), Тестаментарне супституције