THE LEGAL FOUNDATIONS OF REGULATING FAMILY RELATIONS AND THE ORDER OF SUCCESSION IN SMBAT SPARAPET’S “DATASTANAGIRK” (BOOK OF JUDGMENTS)
In all historical periods, a special order for regulating marriage and family relations has existed in Armenia. Family law is the totality of legal norms that regulate personal non-property and related property relations arising from marriage, kinship, and other grounds provided by law. The institutions of family law and the principles of property inheritance have been preserved—with certain changes and revisions—within Armenian legal-philosophical culture. In this context, we emphasize the study of national sources of law, including Smbat Sparapet’s “Datastanagirk” (Book of Judgments), which contains ideas of modern resonance. These include marriage based on love, mutual consent, and free choice; the legal equality of spouses; the exclusion of violence against women and children; the prevention of immoral relations; and the protection of ancestral property and hereditary rights.
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