Editing Dušan Code (section)

==Legacy==
{{expand section|date=February 2012}}[[File:Paja Jovanović-Krunisanje Cara Dušana.jpg|thumb|''Proglašenje Dušanovog zakonika'' (''[[The Proclamation of Dušan's Law Codex]]''), [[Paja Jovanović]], oil on canvas, 1900, [[National Museum of Serbia]]]]
The code continued as the constitution under the rule of Dušan's son, Stefan Uroš V, and during the [[fall of the Serbian Empire]], it was used in all provinces. It was officially used in the successor state, [[Serbian Despotate]],<ref name=Sedlar330>Sedlar, p. 330</ref> until its annexation by the Ottoman Empire in 1459. The code was used as a reference for Serbian communities under Turkish rule, which exercised considerable legal autonomy in civil cases.<ref name=Sedlar330/> The code was used in the Serbian autonomical areas under the Republic of Venice, like [[Grbalj]] and [[Paštrovići]].<ref>{{harvnb|Sindik|1951|pp=119–182}}</ref>

[[Noel Malcolm]] has argued that an article in Dušan Code can be considered speculatively as an early attempt to clamp down on the self-administered Albanian customary law of the mountains ([[Kanun (Albania)|Kanun]]), and if so, this would be an early evidence that such customary laws were in effect.<ref>{{harvnb|Malcolm|1998|p=54}}</ref> 

Dušan Code regulated all social spheres, thus it is considered the second oldest preserved [[constitution]] of Serbia. The original [[manuscript]] is not preserved, but around twenty copies of the transcript, ranging from the 14th to the 18th century, remain.