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Systematization of legislation of the Russian empire and the development of financial and legal education in the dnieper region in the 30’s and 40’s of the 19th century

Natalia Pasichnyk, Renat Rizhniak
Retrieved from Volume 5, No. 2, 2020 Pages 84–104
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Abstract

The article analyzes a unique act of systematization of the legislative array of the Russian Empire, that was implemented during the 30-40’s of the 19th century under the leadership of prominent statesmen M. Speranskyi and M. Baludyanskyi. The systematization of legislative acts at that time was extremely important because it provided state structures and subjects with official legal information that allowed to avoid difficulties of management and judicial proceedings; increased the effectiveness of the legal practice and case management and contributed to the improvement of laws; stimulated research in the legal field and training of professional legal experts. The conceptual theoretical approaches and technological base  of  systematization  of  legislative  acts  developed  by M. Speranskyi are characterized. It is determined that the systematization of the legislative array was implemented by stages, according to the developed systematization program that included: accounting of legislative acts, chronological systematization of Russian legislative acts (chronological incorporation), thematic systematization of legislation (systematic incorporation) and codification of industry legislation. The results of these stages were the creation of the Complete Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire, the Body of Laws, the development of comments on existing laws and educational literature for the teaching of legal disciplines in higher educational institutions of the empire. The complete collection of laws and the Body of Laws of the Russian Empire created the basis for the development of legal science and education in general and financial and legal in particular. Based on them, the Laws on state duties and finances are being studied at the Law faculties of Kharkiv and Kyiv universities in Dnieper Ukraine. The students of the Nizhyn Law Lyceum gained financial and legal knowledge while studying the laws on state duties and finances according to the Body of Laws of the Russian Empire (Volumes IV-VIII). Instead of a general course in law, the students of the Richelieu Lyceum were studying the state economy and Russian law in 1841, also using the Complete Collection and the Body of Laws of the Russian Empire

Keywords

financial economy; legislation; systematization of legislation; chronological incorporation; systematic incorporation; positive law; Financial Law

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Suggested citation

Pasichnyk, N., & Rizhniak, R. (2020). Systematization of legislation of the Russian empire and the development of financial and legal education in the dnieper region in the 30’s and 40’s of the 19th century. Society. Document. Communication, 5(2), 84-104.