The Legal System of Terek Oblast in 1870-1917: The Organizational Characteristics and Separating Jurisdictions

The aim of the paper is to investigate the legal system of the Terek Oblast from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th centuries. The roles and the functions of Vladikavkaz district court, magistrates and general sessions, mountain oral court, stanitsa and sloboda courts, aul and precinct courts as well as mediation courts (intermediate courts and plectrum courts) are put under study. The article concludes that at the end of 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century the legal system in the Terek Oblast combined common principles of legal structure and some features of indigenous traditional justice (jurisdiction)