Complex sentence: The Statutes of Lithuania were a sign of the progressive European legal tradition, and were cited as precedent in Polish and Livonian courts, furthermore they had a major influence on the 1649 encoding of the Russian legal code, Sobornoye Ulozheniye.
Split into simpler sentences: The Statutes of Lithuania were a sign of the progressive European legal tradition, and were cited as precedent in Polish and Livonian courts. Furthermore they had a major influence on the 1649 encoding of the Russian legal code, Sobornoye Ulozheniye.