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Carte românească de învăţătură de la pravilele împărăteşti şi de la alte giudeaţe (Romanian book of instruction from the imperial statutes and other judicial pronouncements), also known as Pravila lui Vasile Lupu (Vasile Lupu’s code of laws), is the first official codification of civil law in Moldavia (present-day Romania). It is also the country’s earliest printed legal code in the Romanian language. It lays down aspects of agricultural and criminal law while still acknowledging local customary law. Vasile Lupu (1593‒1661) was the voivode (military commander and governor ...