Excerpt from A History of Russia, Vol. 1
The Church Ordinances of the early Christian princes of Rus - Ecclesiastical jurisdiction as defined in Vladimir's and Yaroslav's Ordinances'respectively - Innovations introduced by the Church into the theory of crime and the system of legal penalties - The monetary reckoning observed in Yaroslav's Ordinance as evidence of the period of its composition - The original basis of that Ordinance - The legislative powers of the Church - The process of ecclesiastical codification - Traces of the same in Yaroslav's Ordinance Relation of Yaroslav's Ordinance to the Rurslzaz'a Pravda - The influence 03.
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