Collective farming community (zadruga) in Serbian Civil Code of 1844 and the Roman law

The subject of this paper are the norms regarding zadruga, the traditional rural cooperative-farming family-based community, in the Serbian Civil Code of 1844, in the light of the roman law. The authors are making an analysis of the rules of the Serbian Civil Code regarding zadruga with intention of showing possible influence of the roman law on the way in which the traditional Serbian institution has been regulated in the Civil Code. The authors also paid special attention to the the influence that the institute of zadruga had in the later Serbian legal theory and praxis.