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Économie et société

Значение «законa» в средневековом праве

Konstantin V. PETROV
p. 167-176

Abstracts

Abstract
The significance of medieval Russian law in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
This article examines the role and significance of the rules contained in the laws (zakony) issued by the supreme power (the grand prince, the tsar, the boyar duma) in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Russia. The author addresses the issue as to whether the law had the same juridical authority as today’s laws. He argues that historians who study cases of infringements of the legal code (Sudebnik) of 1497 often apply modern concepts of the authority of the law. In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Russia, the law had no more authority than custom. Therefore, the phrase “violation of the law” only refers to the fact that judges applied customary law. Of course, the law governed the affairs of the state, but in private affairs, it had no more authority than custom.

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References

Bibliographical reference

Konstantin V. PETROV, “ Значение «законa» в средневековом праве ”Cahiers du monde russe, 46/1-2 | 2005, 167-176.

Electronic reference

Konstantin V. PETROV, “ Значение «законa» в средневековом праве ”Cahiers du monde russe [Online], 46/1-2 | 2005, Online since 01 January 2007, connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/monderusse/8791; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/monderusse.8791

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