Serbian law belongs to the family of laws founded on Roman legal tradition. The family arose after many centuries of expansion of Roman law over the continental Europe and the subsequent influence made on non-European countries by the European law. Adoption of Roman law begun, as far as Serbia is concerned, immediately upon settlement of Serbian tribes upon the Byzantine territory, and it lasted from the dawn of the medieval state until its end, due to numerous ties that Serbian people and state had with Byzantium and Dalmatian cities. The adoption process was interrupted when the Turks came, and it was continued upon liberation from the Turkish power taking place simultaneously with creation of law within the bourgeois states. The Roman legal model penetrated the contemporary Serbian law through the civil code of 1844. Namely, The Civil Code for the Princedom of Serbia was a version of the Austrian civil code of 1811, which adopted some solutions envisaged by the French Code Civile of 1804, while both of the codes had their roots in the Roman law. A deeper analysis of the Serbian Civil Code shows, however, that some of its solutions, in terms of both organization and individual issues, were in fact the result of Hadžić's direct application of the solutions contained in Corpus Iuris Civilis. Therefore, one may speak about a direct adoption of the Roman law by not only the medieval, but also by the contemporary Serbian law.