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Conditional testaments in old Russia: the effect of the social and economic order on modernisation. / Novikov, Andrei .
Recht und Wirtschaft in Stadt und Land Law and Economics in Urban and Rural Environment. ed. / Marju Luts-Sootak; Frank L. Schäfer. 2020. p. 231-241 ( Rechthistorische Reihe).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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T1 - Conditional testaments in old Russia: the effect of the social and economic order on modernisation
AU - Novikov, Andrei
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The effect of foreign laws on the national legal system and their penetration into it was a significant factor in the modernisation of Russia’s social and economic order (in which at the time the feudal order was still very strong). So, the question of to what degree foreign (including Roman law) legal experiences influenced Russian legislation, legal doctrine and procedural practice is a significant one. The aim of this article is to examine the effect of so-called ‘conditional testaments’, or ‘conditional testamentary dispositions’, on Russian inheritance law as a factor in its modernisation. The conditions in the will allowed people to expand the limits of the freedom of will set up by feudal prohibitions, limits that impeded the modernisation of property relations. We should stress that Russian legislators and judges referred legatum, substitution, fideicommissum to conditional testaments. Due to the predominant agrarian and patriarchal origins, the strong survival of group feudal order and the way in which Russia generally lagged behind industrially developed countries (France, Germany), Russian lawyers had to refer to foreign experience when regulating new bourgeois relations. The Russian legislature’s juridical techniques were based on the achievements of Roman and foreign law. Foreign legal influence penetrated legislative practices and legal procedures because Russian lawyers mainly got their education studying Roman law and foreign legislation. Russian scientists, judges, senators, etc., constantly expressed their respect for Roman law, Roman juridical experience and contemporary legal science, especially that of Germany.
AB - The effect of foreign laws on the national legal system and their penetration into it was a significant factor in the modernisation of Russia’s social and economic order (in which at the time the feudal order was still very strong). So, the question of to what degree foreign (including Roman law) legal experiences influenced Russian legislation, legal doctrine and procedural practice is a significant one. The aim of this article is to examine the effect of so-called ‘conditional testaments’, or ‘conditional testamentary dispositions’, on Russian inheritance law as a factor in its modernisation. The conditions in the will allowed people to expand the limits of the freedom of will set up by feudal prohibitions, limits that impeded the modernisation of property relations. We should stress that Russian legislators and judges referred legatum, substitution, fideicommissum to conditional testaments. Due to the predominant agrarian and patriarchal origins, the strong survival of group feudal order and the way in which Russia generally lagged behind industrially developed countries (France, Germany), Russian lawyers had to refer to foreign experience when regulating new bourgeois relations. The Russian legislature’s juridical techniques were based on the achievements of Roman and foreign law. Foreign legal influence penetrated legislative practices and legal procedures because Russian lawyers mainly got their education studying Roman law and foreign legislation. Russian scientists, judges, senators, etc., constantly expressed their respect for Roman law, Roman juridical experience and contemporary legal science, especially that of Germany.
KW - civil law
UR - https://www.peterlang.com/view/9783631810583/html/ch19.xhtml?pdfVersion=true
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783631810583
T3 - Rechthistorische Reihe
SP - 231
EP - 241
BT - Recht und Wirtschaft in Stadt und Land Law and Economics in Urban and Rural Environment
A2 - Luts-Sootak, Marju
A2 - Schäfer, Frank L.
T2 - 9th Conference in Legal History in the Baltic Sea Area
Y2 - 16 May 2018 through 20 May 2018
ER -
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