Pskov Judicial Charter

Pskov Judicial Charter

The Pskov Judicial Charter ( _ru. Псковская судная грамота) was the legal code of the Pskov Republic. It was issued in various redactions between 1397 and 1467, and was based on certain resolutions of the Pskovian city assembly or veche, princely decrees, provisions of the Russkaya Pravda and common law. It, along with the Novgorod Judicial Charter, was an important source for the Sudebnik of 1497. [Richard Hellie, "The Law," in "The Cambridge History of Russia", vol. 3 Maureen Perrie, ed., pp. 360-386, esp. 364-365.]

The Pskov Judicial Charter reflected the most important aspects of socio-economic and political life of the Pskovian land in the 14th - 15th century. It protected private property, especially feudal landownership, regulated procedures for official registration of landownership and court examination of land disputes, defined the status of the so-called "izorniks" (a category of feudally dependent peasants). Many articles of the Charter were dedicated to trade relations, such as buying and selling, pawning, loans, hiring of workforce etc. The code provided for a death penalty in case of a political crime or regular criminal offense. [For the text of the charter, see Daniel H.Kaiser, trans. and ed. "The Laws of Rus, Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries". Salt Lake City: Charles Schlacks, Jr., 1992.); see also B. D. Grekov, ed., "Pskovskaia sudnaia gramota.” "Istoricheskie zapiski" 6 (1940): 237-54.]

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