2021
Flavius Antoniu BAIAS, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, Constantin PINTILIE, PhD. Student, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, Romanian Law in Bessarabia – before and after the Great Union
DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.31178/AUBD.2021.13
Abstract: The article aims to present some elements regarding
the history of Romanian law in Bessarabia from 1812 until the period
immediately following the Great Union. The evolution of Romanian law in this
period could be described by three determinants: unity, survival and
unification. In 1812 there was a cohesive system of legal norms in Bessarabia,
a true autochthonous law, so that the annexation of Bessarabia by the Tsarist
Empire did not mean the automatic replacement of the applicable rules of
conduct, but some legal institutions survived until the Great Union. Moreover,
immediately after the annexation of Bessarabia, there was the intention to draw
up a „Civil Code for Bessarabia”, the jurist Petru Manega succeeding in
carrying out such a project following the model of the Napoleonic Code. The
last stage analyzed is that of the process of legislative unification of
Bessarabia, a difficult process and, unfortunately, with a short-term effect.
Last but not least, the study aims to bring up in actuality the personality and
the work of two illustrious Romanian lawyers, Andrei Rădulescu and Vespasian
Erbiceanu.
Keywords: legislative unification, Great Union, Romanian law
in Bessarabia, draft civil code for Bessarabia, Petru Manega, Andrei
Rădulescu, Vespasian Erbiceanu.
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