A Council Code of 1649

Conciliar The Code - a code of laws of Russia, which was approved by the Zemsky Sobor for 1648-1649.It was made during the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich.Of this document by the Commission, headed by Prince NIOdoyevski.As a basis for the creation of Law Code is used in 1550, the book Rogue, the Provincial, Local orders, collective petitions townspeople, provincial and Moscow nobility and Kormchaia, Lithuanian Statute.In general, in the Conciliar The Code includes 25 chapters and 967 articles, which are devoted to the state and the criminal process and the right of property.

In several chapters, deals with the state law.The first chapter gives the definition of the term as a "crime against the state," which involves an action that is directed against the power of the monarch and the personality of the king.Participation in a criminal act and a conspiracy against the king, the governor, nobles and clerks of people punished by death without mercy.

Conciliar laid in the first chapter describes the protection of the interests of the church from the rebels, the protection of the nobility, even in the murder of peasants and slaves.On social inequality and protection of the interests of the ruling class of Russia says the difference in penalties for insult for insult peasant supposed to pay two rubles drinker - the ruble, and the persons belonging to the privileged class - up to 80-100 rubles.

Chapter "Court of the peasants" includes articles that adorned serfdom establishes eternal hereditary dependence of farmers in this chapter was canceled years time limit for tracking down fugitive peasants, for harboring a fugitive has been found a large penalty.Conciliar The Code has selected the peasants landowner the right to legal representation in relation to property disputes.

In accordance with chapter "On the townspeople people" were eliminated private settlement in the cities, they were returned to the taxable estates of people who have previously been exempt from tax.Judicial Legal Code provides for the tracing of runaway townspeople population tenements were imposed taxes and duties.About enslaving menials tell the head "On estates" and "On the local lands" that are dedicated to land tenure nobles.

Conciliar The Code contains an extensive chapter "On the court," which deals with issues sudoproizvodstvennye.It regulates in detail the procedure of investigation and of the judicial proceedings, determines the size of the judicial duties, fines, covers the issues of deliberate and intentional crime, handling controversial cases concerning property.

structure of the armed forces of the state is considered in the chapters "On the service of soldiers of the Moscow State", "Oh Sagittarius", "On the redemption of prisoners of war."Conciliar The Code briefly described in this article, it was an important step in the development of serfdom and autocracy.It is the basic law in the Russian state until the middle of the XIX century.