Mining Code
The Mining Code, Mining Law or Miners' Law or Novo Brdo Code, is a compilation of laws on mining in the Serbian Despotate, enacted by Despot Stefan Lazarević on 29 January 1412, but formulated in 1390. Apart from mining laws, there are legal provisions concerning the organization and life in Novo Brdo, a city which at that time was the largest mine in the Balkans. The compilation survived in several later transcripts, of which a 16th-century illustrated manuscript is regarded as the most important.
