title: Adaptation of Imperial Jurisdiction of Magistrates’ courts in Transcaucasia
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metadata.value: Verniaev, Igor I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-01-17T12:05:57Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-01-17T12:05:57Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Verniaev I. I. Adaptation of Imperial Jurisdiction of Magistrates’ courts in Transcaucasia. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2019, vol. 64, iss. 4, pp. 1240–1256.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2019.405
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16922
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The formation of general, unified state institutions in multiethnic countries has always posed
  a challenge. Gradual introduction of new jurisdiction on the basis of the Judicial Statutes of
  1864 into the entire Russian Empire became a large-scale practice of creating such institutions.
  The article discusses the process of the establishing and functioning of magistrates ‘courts
  (mirovoy sud) in the South Caucasus. The research has shown the necessity to reconsider the
  existing opinion in historiography on the radical contrast between the new judicial system and
  judicial and legal practices of the people of Transcaucasia. Models of insurmountable dualism
  of opposing cultural-legal systems are, on closer examination, one-sided and inadequate. The
  article demonstrates that there were common features between the new jurisdiction, its procedural
  and legal base, and local judicial and legal views and practices. The imperial legislation
  partially incorporated the provisions of the regional legal code and canonical law. Imperial
  courts partly used customary law. Communication channels were formed between the new
  courts and local communities. There was a kind of personnel “indigenization” of the imperial
  court. The paper proves that magistrates’ courts occupied an important and irreplaceable
  niche in the region. The guarantees of justice and gradual adaptation to local realities made
  it demanded by the local population. Models of hybridity, symbiotic institutional and cultural-
  legal spaces, which are being developed in post-colonial studies, seem to be more suitable
  for describing the interaction between judicial and legal institutions of the empire and its
  borderlands.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This article was prepared with the support of grant No. 15-18-00119 of the Russian Science Foundation.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 64; Issue 4
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Transcaucasia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: magistrates’ courts
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: adaptation of common institutions to ethno-confessional diversity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Adaptation of Imperial Jurisdiction of Magistrates’ courts in Transcaucasia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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