Law of Obligations of Moldova in the 16th – 17th Centuries

Relevance. The appeal to the field of binding legal relations in Moldova of the XVI-XVII centuries is dictated by the erroneous idea that in feudal society, the law of obligations was not widespread. At the same time, numerous acts of the XVI – XVII centuries testify to the intensive development of the law of obligations and its individual institutions in the Moldovan state. The article highlights the issues of binding legal relations in Moldova of the XVI – XVII centuries.
The purpose of the article is to determine the main characteristics of the law of obligations of the Moldovan state, as well as the features of certain types of contracts: barter, gift, sale, loan, loan, etc.
Objectives: to analyze the branch of the law of obligations of Moldova in the 16th-17th centuries, the sources of its legal regulation; to determine the main types of civil law contracts, to reveal the essence of the right of first refusal.
Methodology. The methodological basis was the historical method of research. Along with the historical method of research, the principles of objectivity and scientific character were used.
The results of the scientific research showed that despite the intensification of the development of the law of obligations in Moldova of the XVI – XVII centuries, there was no unified national legal collection in the state aimed at regulating private law relations. Partially accepted norms of Byzantine law (the Syntagma of M. Vlastar, the Byzantine Agricultural Law), as well as the Code of Vasily Lupu of 1646, did not displace the norms of customary law (obicheyul pamyntului), which primarily regulated obligationsThe regulation of binding relations by the norms of customary law resulted in the preservation of some community institutions, such as the idea of solidarity, which consists in the presence of collective subjects and collective responsibility (family, community), the right of pre-emptive acquisition ("protimisis").
Conclusions. In general, it can be concluded that the field of binding legal relations has been intensively developing and has tended to mix different types of legal relations, such as barter, purchase and sale, gifts, loans, loans, etc. This is due to the lack of development of legal terminology and techniques, as well as the nature of property turnover with its naturalization features. The development of the law of obligations took place by gradually replacing personal liability under contracts with property liability.

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