Hungarian customary law

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Hungarian customary law is the traditional, unwritten body of legal norms and practices that historically governed the Kingdom of Hungary, later systematized and influenced by works such as Werbőczy’s Tripartitum.

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Hungarian-Croatian royal law 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf customary law
legal tradition
source of law
alsoAppliedIn Croatia in union with Hungary NERFINISHED
Transylvania NERFINISHED
Upper Hungary NERFINISHED
appliesTo nobility of the Kingdom of Hungary NERFINISHED
peasants in the Kingdom of Hungary
basedOn ancient customs of the Hungarian nobility
decisions of county courts
royal court practice
characteristic collective rights of the Hungarian nation (natio Hungarica)
feudal legal structure
judge‑made rules
privileges of the Hungarian nobility
strong role of nobility
traditional practices
unwritten norms
codifiedIn Tripartitum NERFINISHED
containsPrinciple free election of the king in theory
noble equality (una eademque nobilitas)
right of resistance (ius resistendi) in some interpretations
continuedInForceUntil 19th century
country Kingdom of Hungary NERFINISHED
field private law
procedural law
public law
governed inheritance among the Hungarian nobility
judicial procedure in Hungarian courts
land tenure in medieval Hungary
public law relations between king and estates
status of serfs in Hungary
influencedBy German customary law
Roman law NERFINISHED
canon law
languageOfEarlyFormulations Latin NERFINISHED
legalCulture Central European legal culture
legalSystem Hungarian legal system
partiallyWrittenDownIn Tripartitum NERFINISHED
partlySupersededBy Austrian civil codes NERFINISHED
modern Hungarian legislation
recognizedRight jurisdictional privileges of the nobility
self‑government of counties
tax exemption of nobles
region historical Hungary NERFINISHED
relatedWork Tripartitum NERFINISHED
sourceFor Tripartitum NERFINISHED
systematizedBy István Werbőczy NERFINISHED
timePeriod Middle Ages
early modern period

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Ban of Croatia legalSystem Hungarian customary law
this entity surface form: Hungarian-Croatian royal law
Tripartitum of Werbőczy legalSystem Hungarian customary law