General Property Code for the Principality of Montenegro

The extensive book by Miloš D. Luković Bogišić’s Code–Preparation and Linguistic Shaping is devoted to the “General Property Code for the Principality of Montenegro” of 1888, drawn up by the distinguished 19th-century jurist Valtazar Bogišić and popularly known as Bogišić’s Code. The analytical focus of the book is on the terminological lexis and grammatical features of the Code, looked at in the context of the creation of the text of the Code. The whole process of drawing up the Code has been termed the preparation and linguistic shaping of the Code and, accordingly, the book is divided into two parts. It looks at the previous scholarly research into the Code, Bogišić’s life and career before his codifying mission from Russia to Montenegro, his research into customary law in Montenegro, theoretical debate surrounding the preparation of the Code, the process of formulating its provisions and discussing the draft, and Bogišić’s domestic and foreign collaborators in the process. In that way, the book provides an original contribution in the field of historical linguistics and legal historiography.