Reporting Offences and Protection of the Public Interest in Moravian Provincial Law in the 16th Century

• Published in: Studies in logic, grammar and rhetoric : the Journal of University of Bialystok Vol. 68; no. 1; pp. 527 - 540
• Main Author: Janišová, Jana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 01.12.2023
• Subjects: 16. century; legal history; Margraviate of Moravia; serfs
• ISSN: 2199-6059
• DOI: 10.2478/slgr-2023-0030

The legal institute of whistleblowing as a tool for detecting wrong-doing, especially in large corporations, and at the same time as an institute of whistleblower protection is a matter of modern law and its wider use has been registered only in recent decades. However, some aspects of whistleblowing, in particular the protection of the public interest and the possibility for weaker parties to report offences to an official, can already be found in older law in many different countries. Moravian provincial law was the main law on the territory of the Margraviate of Moravia, although there were other legal circuits (with regard to the personality of the law) paying quite a lot of attention to the issue of reporting offences to an official authority. This issue is connected not only with the police regulations for the protection of the country, but is also strongly reflected in the set of provisions concerning the serfs.