Customary Legal Ethno-Justice among the Perm Peoples in the 16th-18th centuries

The study of customary legal ethno-justice among the Perm peoples in the 16th-18th centuries allows us to identify the patterns of functioning of ethnic justice based on the norms of customary law, to reveal the influence of many factors relating to the peculiarities of the impact of the norms of positive law on the norms of the customary law of the Perm peoples.From the 16th to the 18th centuries, Russian state structures normatively established the basic principles and conditions for the further functioning and gradual development of ethno-justice based on customary law among the Perm peoples.Since the 18th century, the process of accumulation and systematization of legal information has been associated with the improvement of administrative management of Russian outskirts inhabited by various peoples.Throughout the 18th century, the Russian state not only did not prohibit the various peoples who inhabited the expanses of the empire from administering justice according to their traditional norms, which were developed in the process of centuries-old application, but also sanctioned this process.It is important to note that by the 18th century, the necessary conditions were created for the existence of communal ethnojustice among the Perm peoples.However, during the 18th century, the Russian legislator sought not only to systematize, but also to unify the features of legal proceedings, normatively regulating adversarial proceedings, as well as the stages of the judicial process, fixing the methods of initiating cases, their pre-trial preparation, the procedure and features of sentencing.In addition, the system of all judicial state bodies was subject to regulatory regulation, with the separation of judicial authorities, and differentiation was also made between civil and criminal processes.