City Law of the Holy Roman Empire of the 14th - early 16th centuries. as a means of exercising the legal freedom of the individual
The article is devoted to the urgent problem of the formation of the legal situation of citizens in the class-deed feudal society in the process of forming legal systems of urban law in the Holy Roman Empire in the 14th and early 16th centuries. Particular attention is paid to the personal freedom inherent in members of urban communities and the role of urban law as a particimate legal system that forms the basis of the legal situation of urban dwellers. Based on an analysis of the process of forming the legal systems of the city law of the Holy Roman Empire, the author reveals the contents of these particular legal systems as collective systems of legal norms, providing, in particular, personal freedom members of urban communities, which served to develop the legal ideas of the New Age.