Full text of the paper:
Collected Papers of the Faculty of Law, University of Novi Sad
2019, vol. LIII, No. 4, pp. 1233–1254
Language of the paper: Serbian
Original scientific paper
udk: 343.352: :[340.130(497.11)”12”
doi: 10.5937/zrpfns53-24506
Author:
Miloš Stanković, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
University of Belgrade
Faculty of Law Belgrade
nata140892@gmail.com
Abstract:
In the first part of the paper, the author points to the roots of anti-corruption provisions in medieval Serbian legislation which were enacted even in St. Sava’s Nomocanon. Then the concrete provisions of the Nomocanon that have an anticorruptional character and which recall some modern institutions are analyzed. These are the prohibition of giving and receiving bribes in context of Simonia (selling of priests range), the prohibition of the conflict of interests, which is recognized in forms of nepotism and of performing of spiritual and secular functions or of two spiritual functions at the same time, and the obligations of the monks and priests to report and clearly separate their own property from the church one. The author concludes that at a time when anti-corruption rules were in force in medieval Serbia, they were at a high level of legislative technique and could have represented more than a solid basis for its eradication.
Keywords:
Saint Sava’s Nomocanon, Act on Prevention of Corruption, corruption, anti-corruption measures, bribe, conflict of interests, report of property.