As mirrored by modern laws, the crime was divided into individual and organized one. Criminal of the first kind was called "tat" (thief; "tatba", robbery), while the latter would be "gusar" (pirate, marauder). The "gusars" were considered a bandits, who also loot and plunder public goods, rather than just private ones, and their crime was called "najezda" or "grabež" (raid or plunder, respectively). The horses used in the raid ("najezdni konji", raid horses) were taken from the gang and divided in two: half for the state (that is, emperor) and half for the victim of the crime. As horse was an expensive commodity in medieval Serbia, it was used as a currency for damage payments. The plunderers themselves were hanged upside down. The state considered organized crime much more threatening to the society. As the horses were expensive, regular thieves could rarely organize themselves to conduct horse raids, so the concern came from the acts of the noblemen, who had resources. They would often plunder the population and take lands that are not theirs and not given to them by the emperor. The ruler didn't want to allow them to control more assets than he gave them, or to let them form their own private armies. In accordance with this, the punishments for these crimes became harsher in time, including the death penalty as the later amendments to the code recognized the crime as being premeditated. The code was specifically forbidding the noblemen to plunder their own villagers, which was a common thing at one point.