Legal Regulation of Criminal Relations in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in a Pre-Statute Period on the Example of Volyn Lands
Keywords:
Great Duchy of Lithuania, Volyn, customary law, privilege, jurisprudence, legal regulation, source of lawAbstract
In the article, on the basis of historical and legal analysis of landmarks of law, monographic literature and scientific works, is given a general description of sources of law, by the norms of which criminal law relations in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania on the Volyn lands were regulated before the adoption of the Lithuanian statutes. It is determined that the Ruthenian customary law occupied a dominant position in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the XIV-XVI centuries. It was established that the Volyn privilege played an important role in the legal regulation of criminal law in the Volyn region, which fixed the principle of presumption of innocence: it was forbidden to execute the nobility and confiscate their property other than on the basis of a court decision. The reasons for the reception by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of the rich legal culture of Kyivan Rus are substantiated.
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