Tripartitum

The Tripartitum or Opus Tripartitum (in full, Latin: Tripartitum opus iuris consuetudinarii inclyti regni Hungariae, "Customary Law of the Renowned Kingdom of Hungary in Three Parts") is a manual of Hungarian customary law which Werbőczy began to compile in 1504 in Alsópetény, completed in 1514, and was first published at Vienna in 1517.

[1] Although it never received official approval due to the political effects caused by the peasant revolt led by György Dózsa, it was highly influential and went through fifty editions in three hundred years.

Werbőczy was a Hungarian jurist, royal magistrate, royal personal secretary and Palatine of Hungary and the Tripatitum "enshrines the ideals of a typical contemporary member of his class".

[3] A peasant revolt led by György Dózsa had been suppressed earlier in 1514, which influenced Werbőczy.

The Tripartitum played a large role in perpetuating Hungary's feudal system.

Front page of "Decretum tripartitum", the Croatian version of Hungarian original, edited by Ivanuš Pergošić and printed in 1574 in Nedelišće