Examples of collective property in the Justinijanov Zakon and in the Dušan’s Zakonik: between Byzantine law and medieval Serbian law

The problem represented by the collective property had a pivotal role in the medieval Serbian law, as coming from the Byzantine one; moreover, according to such a problem, a historical perspective of the economic and social function of the property right, together with an approach of comparative law, must be considered unavoidable in order to understand also the split between the ownership and the use of the land also in some contemporary legal systems.