Open AccessThe Practice of Negotiating Death Penalty in Moldavia by Mid-18th Century
Author(s) -
Cătălina Chelcu
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
saeculum christianum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2720-0515
pISSN - 1232-1575
DOI - 10.21697/sc.2021.28.1.7
Subject(s) - negotiation , power (physics) , property (philosophy) , space (punctuation) , period (music) , sociology , law , economics , business , history , political science , art , philosophy , linguistics , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , aesthetics
The procedure of redeeming a crime (compositio) or plata capului/“blood money” (paying the price of the victim) was a practice in the Moldavian Middle Ages and the premodern period, and was commonplace also in the wider space of medieval central and eastern Europe. This practice had implications in the structure of property as well because, in the absence of the money needed to pay the two obligations, most defendants guaranteed with their estates in exchange for the sums required or gave them for sale to people with financial power, who purchased them.