Abstract:In the Russian Empire, a variety of legal traditions in the field of private law coexisted with a central and common element, known either as imperial civil law or "Russian" civil law. The specific regulations that were in force in territories before their incorporation into the empire and remained in force afterward were called "local laws" in the late imperial period. This article focuses on the emergence of the concept of "local laws" by studying the interactions between scholarly conceptions of civil law a… Show more
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