 This document contains a description of the Poljica common law and its system of government, and is one of the most important Croatian historical legal statutes (together with the Vinodol codex of 1288), written in a mixture of Chakavian and Shtokavian dialects, and in Cyrillic (the name appears in the annex of the Statute of Poljica from 1655) (' and ').One of the items of the Poljica Statute states that "everyone has the right to live", contrary to many mediaeval European laws replete with capital punishments including torture.A number of other documents dated from the 12th to 17th century regarding the republic have been preserved, such as "Poljički molitvenik" (1614) and "Statut poljičke bratovštine Sv.Kuzme i Damjana" (1619).