Legal Regulation of the Institution of Feeding in the Moscow State at the Beginning of the 16th Century

Abstract

The article deals with the historical and legal problems of the legal registration of the institution of feeding in the context of the creation and strengthening of a single centralized Russian state at the beginning of the 16th century. Based on the study of the content of grand-ducal and specific charters on feeding, draws a number of conclusions about the limitation of the powers of representatives of the all-power authorities in the field. It is proved that the Moscow sovereigns by legal means limited the arbitrariness of governors, volostels, tiuns and other officials of the all-Russian administration by strictly prescribed deadlines, the volume of obligatory payments in kind or in cash for their material maintenance, as well as by granting appropriate privileges to individual professional communities fishermen, falconers, beaver hunters, etc. Within the framework of the institution of feeding, it is revealed that the wild virus, known to Russkaya Pravda, is preserved as the current norms of law, which raises an additional question about the relationship between the legal force of the Grand Duke's Code of Laws of 1497, letters of Moscow sovereigns, lists of Russian Pravda and local customs (for example, according to payment of ubrus or hatcher marten). It is proved that the specific feeding systems were absolutely identical to the nationwide ones, acting in the interests of Muscovite Russia.