اصطلاحات حقوقي در زبان فارسي ميانه (پهلوي)

Legal Terms in the Middle Persian

In this paper, the writer has made an attempt to discuss certain legal issues in the Sassanid period. The basis of this paper is the only book survived from that period: Madtyan 7 hazar Dadestan or "One Thousand Legal Articles". Besides criminal law, the book deals with other legal issues including inheritance, properties, lease, agreements and investment contracts. The importance of the book lies in the fact that it contains a great number of specialized legal terms, most of which discussed for the first time. The book has not been translated into Persian yet.