A History of Russian Law: From Ancient Times to the Council Code (Ulozhenie) of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich of 1649

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A History of Russian Law: From Ancient Times to the Council Code (Ulozhenie) of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich of 1649

By Ferdinand Feldbrugge
Brill Nijhoff October 2017

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ISBN-13
9789004346420
Publisher
Brill Nijhoff
Publication
October 2017
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Hardback
Jurisdiction
Netherlands ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The beginnings of Russian law are documented by the Russo-Byzantine treaties of the 10th century and the oldest Russian law, the Russkaia Pravda.

The tempestuous developments of the following centuries (the incessant wars among the princes, the Mongol invasion, the rise of the Novgorod republic) all left their marks on the legal system until the princes of Muscovy succeeded in reuniting the country.

This resulted in the creation of major legislative monuments, such as the Codes of Ivan the Great of 1497 and of Ivan the Terrible of 1550. After the Time of Troubles the Council Code of the second Romanov Tsar, Aleksei, of 1649 became the starting point for the comprehensive Russian codification of the 19th century.

Table of Contents

PART I: THE MIDDLE AGES (UNTIL 1497)
Chapter I: General Introduction
Sources
Chapter II: Sources
Chapter III: The Treaties with Byzantium. The Zakon Russkii
Chapter IV: The Russkaia Pravda or Russian Law
Chapter V: The Russkaia Pravda: The Expanded Pravda
Chapter VI: Princely Statutes
Chapter VII: Treaties
Chapter VIII: Town and Provincial Charters
Chapter IX: The Code (Sudebnik) of Ivan III of 1497
Chapter X: Foreign Laws
Chapter XI: Non-Legislative (Non-Normative) Sources – Grámoty (Charters)
The Law
Chapter XII: Setting the Stage: Territory and Tribes in Early Kievan Russia
Chapter XIII: The Prince In Medieval Russia
Chapter XIV: The Prince’s Government
Chapter XV: The Towns
Chapter XVI: Novgorod and Pskov
Chapter XXVI: The Codes of 1589 and of 1606-1607 (Svodnyi Sudebnik)
I. Velikii Novgorod
II. Pskov
III. A Note on Viatka-Khlynov
Chapter XVII: Western Russia
Chapter XVIII: Rural Russia
Chapter XIX: The Individual and The Family
Chapter XX: The Individual as a Legal Actor
Chapter XXI: The Church and Monasteries
Chapter XXII: Courts and Justice

PART II: MUSCOVY (UNTIL 1649)
Chapter XXIII: Introduction
Sources
Chapter XXIV: The Code (Sudebnik) of Ivan Iv of 1550
Chapter XXV: THE Stoglav (1551)
Chapter XXVII: The Statute Books of The Prikazy
Chapter XXVIII: Decisions of The Land Assembly (Zemskii Sobor)
Chapter XXIX: The Council Code (Sobornoe Ulozhenie) of Aleksei Mikhailovich of 1649
The Law
Chapter XXX: The Tsar
Chapter XXXI: The Tsar’s Government
Chapter XXXII: Territory and Population
Chapter XXXIII: Local Government
Chapter XXXIV: Criminal Law and Procedure
Chapter XXXV: Civil Law: Persons
Chapter XXXVI: Civil Law: Ownership
Chapter XXXVII: Civil Law: Family Law and Succession
Chapter XXXVIII: Courts And Justice; Civil Procedure
Chapter XXXIX: The Church, Monasteries, And Church Law

Appendices; Indices
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