Mining Code

Illustration from a 16th-century illustrated manuscript copy.

The Mining Code, Mining Law or Miners' Law (Serbian Cyrillic: Закон о рудницима) or Novo Brdo Code (Новобрдски законик), is a compilation of laws on mining in the Serbian Despotate, enacted by Despot Stefan Lazarević on 29 January 1412, formulated earlier in 1390. Apart from mining laws, there are legal provisions concerning the organization and life in Novo Brdo (Статут Новог Брда, the Statute of Novo Brdo), a city which at that time was the largest mine in the Balkans. The compilation is survived in several later transcripts, of which a 16th-century illustrated manuscript is regarded the most important.

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