The History of the Georgian Law and State Structure

Discover the Untold History of Law and Sovereignty at the Crossroads of Europe and Asia.

The Legal History of Historical Georgia offers a ground-breaking, comprehensive exploration into the sophisticated legal architecture of a kingdom that stood as a vital bridge between Eastern traditions and Western empires. Drawing upon the monumental socio-economic and historical research of Academician Ivane Javakhishvili and providing a rigorous dogmatic analysis of King Vakhtang VI's 18th-century codifications, this monograph reconstructs a highly evolved feudal legal civilization.

Spanning from antiquity and the ancient Near Eastern contexts of the centuries B.C. to the late medieval era, this volume systematically breaks down:

•The Constitutional Framework: The administrative division of royal power and the intricate legal "Symphonia" between Church and State.

•Feudal Property Laws: Secular and monastic land tenure, hereditary estates, and the complex legal status of serfs.

•The Judicial Hierarchy: From local community tribunals to the Darbazi (Supreme Royal Court), including advanced procedural mechanisms such as collective holy oaths (Mopicarni) and judicial ordeals.

•The Penal System: The transformation of criminal liability from clan-based blood feuds to a highly regulated state system of economic composition (Siskli), bodily sanctions, and total asset confiscation (Mookhreba).

•International Private Law: The advanced statutory protections, asylum rights, and commercial freedoms granted to foreign merchants (Stumar-Vacharni) along the Silk Road.

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Perfect for legal historians, medievalists, Caucasian studies scholars, and anyone fascinated by the evolution of justice, this monograph uncovers a refined rule-of-law infrastructure that beautifully balanced absolute monarchical authority with corporate and seigniorial rights.

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