Legal-sociological Researches About Tribes in Montenegro and Albania by Valtazar Bogišić

Abstract

Valtazar Bogišić (1834–1908) is primarily known as a codifier of civil law in Montenegro, i. e. as the author of the Codex of the Civil Proprietary Law for the Principality of Montenegro from 1888. He was preparing this codex according to the request of Prince Nikola of Montenegro and the order of the Russian government because he was a professor at the University of Odessa. Born in close neighbourhood of Montenegro (in Cavtat, near Dubrovnik), educated in Venice, Viena, Giessen and Paris, Bogišić studied common law and legal history of Slavonic peoples. He commenced his studies while he was working in Austro-Hungary (1863–1869), particulary in Viena and southern parts of Hungary (Banat). When Bogišić came in Montenegro 1873, he commenced preparing material for his codex, especially on the basis of the voluminous questionaire (about 2000 questions), wich he comleted up to the end of that year.