[283] This form of succession was a very usual one in the Serb lands.
[284] Gelcich, La Zedda, p. 13; Jireček, Handelsstrassen, p. 36 sqq.
[285] These were allowed to lapse in favour of Vojslav Voinović.
[286] Miklosich, Monumenta Serbica, p. 176.
[287] Gelcich, La Zedda, p. 14; also his Memoire storiche sulle Bocche di Cattaro.
[288] Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, Bury’s edition, vol. vii. pp. 29-31.
[289] The ancient Tainaros, now called Cirmen.
[290] Klaić, p. 199; Gelcich, La Zedda, p. 80.
[291] After the year 1358 the Reformationes allude to the Rector, and no longer to the Rectores.
[292] I.e. when his own acts or the election of one of his relatives was under discussion.