The article is devoted to the legal review of the monument of law of the last quarter of the XVI century – the Sudebnik of 1589, namely, its norms on peasant land ownership and land use. The article analyzes the legislative regulation of land relations in the north-western lands of Russia with the help of historical-legal and comparative-legal methods. To summarize the results of the study, the authors also considered the norms of the Judicial Code of 1550, which regulate the above-mentioned circle of public relations, but are applied in the central regions of Russia, where serfdom existed and actively developed. The comparative characteristics of the legal regulation of land relations among the peasantry in these legal monuments allow us to assert the interdependence of the rights of the Russian landowner on the territorial factor. The authors come to the conclusion that the peculiarity of the legal regulation of land relations in the Judicial Code of 1589 was interconnected and mutually conditioned by the specifics of the social and social structure of Pomerania, on the territory of which its norms were distributed, and where, unlike the central regions of the Moscow Kingdom, the peasant population lived free from serfdom.

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The article is devoted to the analysis of the norms of customary law in the Zaporozhye cossack army. The author pays special attention to the issue of the use of the death penalty for committing a crime. With the use of formal legal, historical-legal and comparative-legal methods, the analysis of law enforcement practice concerning the regulation of the legal life of the Zaporozhye cossacks was carried out. The author came to the conclusion that the legal customs of the army, which was located in a certain historical period on the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and then the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, were formed under the influence of the Lithuanian Statute as amended in 1529, 1566 and 1588. After the Zaporozhian Sich became a Russian citizen in 1654, cossack customs regarding the use of the death penalty ran counter to tsarist legislation (in 1744, this type of punishment was banned in the Russian Empire). However, the judicial authorities of the Zaporozhye army continued to impose such a sanction for certain categories of crimes until the final inclusion of the cossacks in the system of regular troops of the Russian Empire in the last quarter of the XVIII century as part of the Black Sea cossack army.