Integration and Legal Significance of the Decisions of the Cassation Department of the Governing Senate of the Russian Empire (17th – 19th Centuries)

Abstract

The integration of law is understood as the purposeful activity of State bodies to influence the systems of rights existing on the territory of the annexed people and expressed in certain sources of law through the use of special legal means for the purpose of unification with their own system of law. The historically and logically correct choice of the subject of integration activity contributes to the creation of a solid system of public relations, the registration of the political and legal status of the annexed people. The question of the choice of the subject and the legal means of integration is predetermined by the fundamental characteristics of the integrated legal systems. During the integration of the systems of customary law of peoples (Western provinces, Bessarabia, Baltic provinces, Finland, Poland), the mechanism of action and further evolution of which depend on court decisions, a special role belonged to judicial institutions.