The basic characteristics of legal and economic terminology in the Banjska Charter

The Banjska Charter was written at the beginning of the 14th century. It has over 2000 lines of text, thus giving us a good picture of language in medieval Serbia. This paper gives an overview of the legal and economic terminology in the charter. This analysis shows that terminologies in medieval Serbia preserved a common character and that they were mostly of Slavic origin, with the exception of religious terminology, where terms of foreign origin prevailed.