This is a kind of code of honor, similar to a parallel justice, which has sometimes replaced legal organs of the territory.
Some scholars believe that behind the creation of the Code there is the lack of protection of the individual from the state, which in the years in question was not present in the territory.
According to research by Antoinetta Mazzette, professor at the University of Sassari, conducted in 2006 in this area takes place most of the bloody events of the island.
Much of the code is and defines the injuries suffered, by the personal insult, theft and murder, and penalties; the socio-economic environment in which this process has been developed is to agro-pastoral.
As regards the side of the strictly economic loss, the individual offended commit in turn a theft of cattle to return to a situation of equality.