Michael Speransky. Statesman of Imperial Russia, 1772–1839 - Marc Raeff

CODIFYING RUSSIAN LAW 329 not been alone in drafting and issuing laws (especially before Catherine II). Though up to the reign o ...

(^330) CODIFYING RUSSIAN LAW science and archival investigation were still in their infancy in Russia. Little was known of the d ...

CODIFYING RUSSIAN LAW 331 islative material was left out of the compilation of the laws of the Russian Empire. 1 The Complete Co ...

332 CODIFYING RUSSIAN LAW Yet, in spite of these drawbacks, some of which were determined by the historical circumstances of Spe ...

CODIFYING RUSSIAN LAW 333 illustrated or explained. When. several laws dealt with the same problem, or when two or several such ...

(^334) CODIFYING RUSSIAN LAW Such a method obviously involved extremely delicate operations. The authors of the Digest had to ha ...

CODIFYING RUSSIAN LAW 335 French, Austrian, and Prussian models. 1 He needed to define legal concepts and principles which he be ...

336 CODIFYING RUSSIAN LAW The method used for compiling the Digest led not only to innovations and creations of norms and concep ...

CODIFYING RUSSIAN LAW 337 rights and privileges that might have served as an entering wedge for a gradual emancipation with land ...

338 IDDIFYING RUSSIAN LAW novelties and creating new norms. This is evidenced by the manner in which he introduced them - furtiv ...

CODIFYING Rl,JSSIAloI LAW 339 incorporation, rather than a codification in the technical sense. 1 In doubtful cases, therefore, ...

340 CODIFYING RUSSIAN LAW case. Most jurists, however, have felt that the Digest was the "authentic interpretation of the law". ...

CODIFYING RUSSIAN LAW 841 By asking that the non-Russian customs and laws be collected, Speransky was acknowledging the peculiar ...

342 CODIFYING RUSSIAN LAW of the laws' organic evolution. It bureaucratized wh~t had been living and constantly changing legal r ...

CODIFYING RUSSIAN LAW The picture we have given of the codification work of Speransky has perhaps not been a very favorable one. ...

344 CODIFYING RUSSIAN LAW a doctrinaire approach. He himself put it rightly when, quoting Montesquieu, he said that he had histo ...

CODIFYING RUSSIAN LAW 345 SOURCES Ttle present chapter is based primarily on secondary works, as an exhaustive analysis of the p ...

S46 CODIFYING RUSSIAN LAW St. Pbg. 1906-1914; A. E. Nol'de, "Retsenziia na trudy P. M. Maikova," Zhumal Ministerstva Narodnogo P ...

CJIAPTEl\ XII LAST YEARS - CONCLUSION By bringing to a successful conclusion the task of codifying and digesting Russian law, Sp ...

348 LAST YEARS - CONCLUSION tion of Russia). We -j need not go into Speransky's arguments, for - oddly perhaps, but not unexpect ...