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- Title
SLOVENŠČINA PRED KAZENSKIMI SODIŠČI V ZGODNJEM NOVEM VEKU.
- Authors
GOLEC, Boris
- Abstract
The selection of Slovenian texts, deriving from early Modern criminal courts, is very insignificant and almost entirely untreated. Even though there are only five known texts, including the newly discovered, the selection is rich in genre, since we are not dealing only with oaths, but with four types of judicial texts: a proclamation of admission of guilt, an announcement of judgment, two oaths of waiving the revenge and an oath form for witnesses. All the texts are from the 18th century and were recorded by the judicial authorities for the non-privileged, the majority of the population. Three origin from the territory of the Slovenian Styria, from Hrastovec in Slovenske gorice, while two origin from Carniola, from Poljaneob Kolpi (today Predgrad) and Kostanjevica na Krki. So far, only the youngest has been published, two were briefly and often incorrectly mentioned in the literature, while two are for the first time presented at the professional public. Each of the five discussed texts has its own added value, especially the two oldest. These are in fact the only known early modern Slovenian records of announcement of two legal actions in front of any secular court: admission of guilt by the accused and judgement. The texts are interesting for their content and terminology as well. They refer to the following off enses: homosexual intercourse (with a death sentence), infanticide and theft. The vocabulary represents a valuable contribution for the older Slovenian legal terminology.
- Subjects
SLOVENSKE gorice (Slovenia); SLOVENIAN language; CRIMINAL courts; CRIMINAL records; CRIMINAL law; WITNESSES
- Publication
Acta Histriae, 2016, Vol 24, Issue 2, p147
- ISSN
1318-0185
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19233/AH.2016.6