Drugim rečima, da one odslikavaju i vreme kada su se u uslovima raspadanja prvobitnog rodovsko-plemenskog uređenja izgrađivali prvi elementi vlasti na putu ka ranoj državi i kada su se mnogi prastari običaji i običajna pravila prvobitne zajednice transformisali u pravne običaje i nepisane pravne norme.

In other words, these regulations represent the time when the first elements of authority towards the early state were being built and when many primeval customs and common rules of the primordial community were being transformed into legal customs and unwritten legal norms, while the primordial clan tribal organization was falling apart.

http://teme.junis.ni.ac.rs/teme2-2012/teme 2-2012-21 lat.pdf

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The primordial community felt how important social unity was, and it must have had such a feeling as an instinct bred into the humans that constituted it. The community was personified as the tribal god, and respect for this idea was the central belief in the communal culture.
http://www.askwhy.co.uk/truth/c90politicalmorality.php

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Društveno-ekonomska formacija predstavlja tipičan i relativno trajan sistem odnosa u društvu, formiran oko osnovnog proizvodnog odnosa, kao najbitnijeg odnosa u društvu, izraženog u vlasništvu nad sredstvima za proizvodnju. Kretanje, odnosno razvoj društva, putem revolucionarnih promena odvijao se kroz pet istorijskih tipova društveno-ekonomskih formacija:
• Prvobitna zajednica
• Robovlasničko društvo
• Feudalno društvo
• Kapitalističko društvo
• Socijalističko društvo
http://sr.wikipedia.org/sr-el/Друштво