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This English edition is a revised translation from the Polish of Prawo miejskie magdeburskie (Ius municipale Magdeburgense) w Polsce XIV – pocz. XVI wieku. Studium o ewolucji i adaptacji prawa, Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2017 (1st ed.), 2018 (2nd ed.).
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