Statutes of Lithuania

The Statute of Lithuania ( Lithuanian Lietuvos statutai, Belarusian Статуты Вялікага княства Літоўскага, Polish Statuty litewskie ) is a codification of the law of Lithuania in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1529, 1566 and 1588th

Editors

The Statute of Lithuania had three editors:. 1529, 1566 and 1588 all were not written in Lithuanian, which at that time still had no full-fledged status as a written language, but in the so-called Ruthenian, an Eastern Slavic language that was in use as a written language in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

The Statute of Lithuania was in its time a modern legal work and a collection of customary law in the former Eastern Europe in the sixteenth century.