Sasanian Lawbook: Analysis of Early Medieval Iranian Legal Monument

Student: Tutaev Ilya

Educational Programme: Advocacy (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2019

Sasanian Lawbook is one of the most important Early Medieval Iranian legal monuments. The Lawbook was composed during the reign of the Sasanian dynasty and it is the only one legal monument of that age. This monument contains legal substantive and procedural provisions which allow to reveal legal relationship existed in the Sasanian Persia. The place of the legal monument in Early Medieval Iranian law, substantive legal relations on the example of obligation law with the allocation of general and special parts, possible judicial organization, legal statuses of participants of legal proceedings, order of judicial process, evidences in Early Medieval Iran are studied based on the provisions of the Lawbook as well as Early Medieval Iranian law is compared with modern law to identify level of development of the former.

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