"Commoners shall have no council. If anybody is found participating in council, let his ears be cut off, and let the leaders be singed."
— Dušan's Code

January 1, 1970

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Zakonik cara Stefana Dušasna, vol. ii, p. 246; vol. iii, p. 118. Srđan Šarkić, A History of Serbian Mediaeval Law (Brill, 2023) pt. 4, ch. 17, sect. 5, p. 332