The relationship between customary and written laws in the Serbian and Greek legal systems

Abstract

Legal custom-namely unwritten legal rules as an expression of
collective and group authority - is also considered as a particular source
of established law, which applies particularly to the countries of the
Balkan Peninsula, such as Greece and Yugoslavia. The author reviews
the characteristics, both positive and negative, of the phenomenon of
unwritten law in the Balkans, and concludes that there are relationships
between customary and written laws in Greece and Serbia which
deserve further study, since they add to the overall research into the
cultural and political history of the two peoples.