THE MAKING OF COUNCIL CODE: HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE OF MODERNIZATION OF NATIONAL LEGISLATION
D.A. Savchenko
Keywords: modernization of legislation, legal technique, tradition, Sobornoe ulozhenie, historical experience
Subsection: PHILOSOPHY, EXTERNAL RELATIONS, LAW
Abstract
The article is dedicated to the making of 1649 Council code as an important element of socio-political and juridical modernization of home state performed in the middle of the 17 century. Its historical background and sources are analyzed. Much attention is given to the system of the Code and its first chapters. The making of the Code is an example of combination of innovation and conservatism, use of experience of advanced foreign states with regard to national features relying on home traditions.
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