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of other states. In this category fall e.g. the provisions about distributing local offices only to native people (or to people who had bought that status). So, too, do the many, detailed provisions about the Lithuanian estates' assemblies which eventually were abolished by the Lublin union treaty. Thus, in everyday legal practice, the statute trumped and even usurped the union treaty.
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A group often opposing the statute was the Polish nobility, which viewed such inconsistencies as unconstitutional, particularly since the Union of Lublin stipulated that no law could conflict with the law of the Union. The statute, however, in turn, declared the laws that conflicted with itself to be
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Many features of the statute were not in line with the provisions of the Union of Lublin, which is not at all mentioned in the statute. The third article of the Statute provided that all lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania will be eternally within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and never become part
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of Russia. To facilitate the application of the decree translation of the document into Russian was started and took up to 1798. However, the print of this version of the document was swiftly forbidden as the 200-year-old document was seen as more liberal than the contemporary Imperial law. The
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The third variant of the Statute had particularly many humane features, such as a prohibition to enslave a free man for any crime; freedom of religion; and a recommendation to acquit the accused when there is a lack of evidence, instead of punishing the innocent. Also, it provided for double
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held in 1514, the delegates made the first request for laws and rights written down in a comprehensive code. After further repeated requests for such a code, a general diet was convened in the spring of 1522 for the discussion of provisions to be included in the first statute.
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Chapter 12. "O golovschineh i o navezkah lyudej prostyh i o takih lyudeh i chelyadi, kotoraya ot panov svoih othodit, takzhe o slugah prikaznyh" (On the punishments and compensations of simple people and of such people and journeymen which leave their masters, also on
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The statute reorganized and modified existing laws and also included new laws. Novel features included a tendency toward severe penalties, including capital punishment, which was in line with the general reactionary retributive trend in contemporary European law (cf.
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The main purpose of the First Statute was to standardize and unify the law, under one legal code, ending the prominent regional particularism. The unified law was supposed to act as a tool for better political and economic integration of the different regions.
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The Statutes of Lithuania were a sign of the progressive European legal tradition, and were cited as precedent in Polish and Livonian courts. Furthermore, they had a major influence on the 1649 encoding of the Russian legal code,
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unconstitutional. Statutes of Lithuania were also used in territories of Lithuania annexed by Poland shortly before the Union of Lublin. These conflicts between statutory schemes in Lithuania and Poland persisted for many years.
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and also in Poland, where at that time laws were not thoroughly codified and the Lithuanian statute was consulted in some cases where the corresponding or comparably similar Polish laws were unclear or missing.
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Chapter 9. "O podkomoryh v poveteh i o pravah zemlenyh o granicah i mezhah" (On the subcamerarii in counties -ie. officials charged with overseeing land boundaries- and land rights and boundaries).
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compensation for killing or hurting a woman. It was in force in the territory of Lithuania until 1840 when it was replaced by Russian laws. Until then, many Russian peasants and even nobles (e.g.,
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Since May 2024, a fair copy of the First Statute in Western Ruthenian, belonging to Albertas Goštautas, and a manuscript copy of Polish translation of the Second Statute are exhibited at a
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The First Statute was hand-written and survived in several copies. The statutes of Lithuania were translated to Latin because of its superior terminology and to avoid ambiguity.
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family, and the changes were at least partly made with a view to reducing their power. The reforms also instituted Polish as the administrative language, replacing
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Chapter 3. "O volnostyah shlyahetskih i o rozmnozhen'yu Velikogo Knyazstva Litovskogo" (On noble privileges and on the development of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania).
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In 1791, efforts were made to change the system and do away with the privileges of the nobility, creating a constitutional monarchy with a modern citizenry (see
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Chapter 10. "O puschu, o lovy, o derevo bortnoe, o ozera i senozhaty" (On forests, hunting, trees used for honey hunting, on lakes and hayefields).
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The Third Statute, described as an "outstanding monument of the legal, literary and linguistic culture", was accepted in 1588 in response to the
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This Second Statute made the rights of Orthodox Christians and Catholics equal. It consisted of 14 Chapters and contained 367 Articles.
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The Palace of the Commonwealth. Three times opened. Treasures from the National Library of Poland at the Palace of the Commonwealth
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origin. The statute was the first one to be printed (in contrast to the handwritten statutes before) in the
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Chapter 11. "O kgvalteh, o boeh, o golovschinah shlyahetskih" (On violations, fights and punishments of
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Chapter 1. "O parsune nasshoj gospodarskoj" (On the status of Grand Duke of Grand Duchy of Lithuania).
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The First Statute was drafted in 1522 and came into force in 1529 by the initiative of the
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Attempts by the Lithuanian nobility to limit the power of Lithuanian magnates led to the
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Chapter 14. "O zlodejstve vsyakogo stanu" (On various frauds and wrong doings).
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Szkice z dziejów federalizmu i myśli federalistycznych w czasach nowożytnych
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statutes remained in effect until 1840, when they were outlawed by emperor
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Chapter 7. "O zapiseh i prodazheh" (On the conduct of business and taxes).
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16th-century codification of legislation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
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revised the Union of Lublin and approved the Third Lithuanian Statute.
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First page of the Latin copy of Laurentius (1531) of the First Statute
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Chapter 2. "O oborone zemskoj" (On legal defence before courts).
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The second statute came into effect in 1566 by the order of the
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Chapter 13. "O grabezhah i navezkah" (On theft and robberies).
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Chapter 4. "O sud'yah i sudeh" (On judges and courts of law).
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Chapter 8. "O testamentah" (On last wills and testaments).
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was the most active proponent of Latin usage in the GDL.
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Chapter 5. "O oprave posagu i o vene" (On bride-prices).
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permanent exhibition in the Palace of the Commonwealth
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politics and government of Lithuania

Neminem captivabimus acts, 1430
Casimir's Code, 1468
The First Statute, 1529
The Second Statute, 1566
Henrician Articles, 1573
The Third Statute, 1588
Constitution of 3 May 1791
Mutual Pledge of the Two Nations, 1791
Temporary Constitutions of 1918-1920
Constitution of 1922
Klaipėda Convention, 1924
Constitution of 1928
Constitution of 1928
Constitution of 1938
Lithuanian SSR Constitution of 1940
Partisans Declaration of 1949
Lithuanian SSR Constitution of 1978

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