THE JUSTICE OF TERRITORIAL VILLAGE COMMUNITY

Abstract

Contrary to the tribal community based on the blood relation, the territorial community was based on the common possession of the group’s territory. The community’s territory was designed for traditional purposes: agriculture, beef breeding, hunting and fishing, therefore the community appears to be a working group. Hence, the internal structure of the territorial village community was conceived so as to serve this purpose, as well as to solve all problems occurring inside and outside the group. The leading structures were: the Community’s Assembly composed of legal age members, taking decisions related to group’s possessions, to agricultural works, to family relations, to conflict settlement and to group’s defense, the Old and Good People who were elected by the Community’s Assembly in order to settle judiciary problems and the Judges who were responsible with ensuring the internal order. Key-words: justice, law, judgement, State organization, proceedings, legal customs.