On the judicial system of the Novgorod republic

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the rules of the Novgorod judicial charter, regulating the judicial system of the Novgorod Republic in the 15th century. A feature of the emerging justice of Novgorod is the widespread involvement of the population in the administration of justice. This circumstance is due to a number of reasons related to the peculiarities of the formation of the Novgorod Republic by its territorial location, climatic conditions, as well as economic and political relations with other principalities and states. The article considers the types of judicial institutions formed in the Novgorod Republic and gives an attempt to detail their competence, as well as reflects the participation of the population in the formation and functioning of the courts in Novgorod. This study was conducted using the universal dialectical method of cognition, which allows us to consider phenomena in their systemic development, interconnection and interdependence. The work is based on a historical approach to the phenomena studied, using problem-chronological, formal-legal methods, as well as general scientific methods of cognition (analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction, comparison, etc.).