PATRYCjA EWA HEROD WNHiS UKSW, Warszawa THE REgULATIONS IN THE FIELD OF CRImINAL LAW IN THE STATUTE OF SOCHACZEW OF 27 APRIL 1377 Acz myedzy nyekthorimy ludzmy kthorego kolibi stadla bily valka albo zwada przygodzylabi syąn thedi on komu oczyecz brath abo ktho s prziyaczol przes nyekogo bilbi zabith, schvkacz crzywego i patrzacz ma, ale sprawyedliwego nyema gabacz paklibi smyalosczyąn zlosczywąn prawego w domu albo procza domu nagabal tedi ten czo nagaba czczy i gymyenya ma bycz zbawyon, a ossobnye se schiyan varowacz syąn musi. O mąnzoboysthwye, para 7 of the Statute of 27 April 1377, issued in Sochaczew by Siemowit III, translated Maciej of Różan 1 . After the death of Duke Bolesław II of Masovia 2 in 1313, the next and the same time the last sovereign ruler of the entire Masovia was only Siemowit III 3 , who ruled over all the lands of Masovia from 1370 to the turn of 1373/74, when he determined the borders for his * Translated by Spektra Sp. z o.o. 1 Prawa książąt mazowieckich / transl. into Polish by Maciej of Różan, 1450, homography reprint from the Kórnik Code made by. A. Piliński, Kórnik 1877, p. 2 (according to the pagination adopted by the author of the arti- cle, due to the failure of Maciej of Różana to introduce numbers); cf. J. Lelewel, Księgi ustaw polskich i mazowieck- ich, Wilno 1824, p. 134; See: Iura Masoviae Terrestria: pomniki dawnego prawa mazowieckiego ziemskiego (dalej: IMT), ed. J. Sawicki, vol. 1 (1228-1471), Warszawa 1972, No.22, art. 7: Actor homicidii queratur, p. 30. 2 Bolesław II (ca. 1253/58-1313), the son of Siemowit I, brother of Konrad II, a co-regent (with his brother) until 1275, when as a result of the partition of Masovia he became the Duke of Płock, in the years 1288-89 in Sandomierz, the ruler over the entire Masovia from 1294. [O. Balzer, Genealogia Piastów, Kraków 1895, pp. 421- -423; J. Grabowski, Dynastia Piastów mazowieckich. Studia nad dziejami politycznymi Mazowsza, intytulacją i genealogią książąt, Kraków 2012, p. 272-275, K. Jasiński, Rodowód Piastów mazowieckich, Poznań-Wrocław 1998, pp. 16-23; See: B. Horodyński, Bolesław ii (zm. 1313), Polski Słownik Biograficzny (hereinafter: PSB), vol. 1-7, Kraków 1935-58; vol. 8-15, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków 1959-70; vol. 16-25, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków- Gdańsk 1971-1980; vol. 26-31, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków-Gdańsk-Łódź 1981-88; vol. 32-34, Wrocław- Warszawa-Kraków 1989-93; vol. 35-50, Warszawa-Kraków 1994-2015, vol. 2, p. 267]. 3 Siemowit III (1316/25-1381), the son of Trojden I, the brother of Bolesław George II and Casimir I, a co-regent (with his brother Casimir I) of the lands of Warsaw in Czersk from 1341, from 1345 of Rawa, from ca. 1349, as a re- sult of the partition, he became the Duke of Czersk, Liw and Rawa, from 1351 the ruler of Gostynin, from 1351 the vassal of Poland, from 1352 the Duke of Płock, from 1355 in Warsaw and Sochaczew, from 1370 a sovereign ruler, also in Płock, from 1370 in zakroczym and Wizno. [O. Balzer, Genealogia, op. cit., pp. 457-458; J. Grabowski, Dynastia, op. cit., pp. 288-297, 443-444; K. Jasiński, Rodowód Piastów mazowieckich, op. cit., pp. 61-68; See: K. Jasiński, Siemowit III (ca. 1320-1381), PSB, vol. 37, pp. 73-75]. * Saeculum Christianum vol. XXII (2015) pp. 69-79