Extract from decrees, instructions and decrees (1786)

An extract from decrees, instructions, and decrees (1786) is a collection of normative acts that enshrined the foundations of social, economic, and political relations that had developed at that time on Ukrainian lands that were within the borders of the Russian Empire . To harmonize the old administrative practice with the requirements of the new Russian legislation, officials of the Little Russian expedition of the Governing Senate prepared a collection based on “Extract of Little Russian Rights” of 1767, “The Establishment for the Management of the Provinces of the All-Russian Empire” in 1775, and other acts of the tsarist government adopted in 1767 - 1786 year.

The collection has been supplemented and revised in comparison with the “Extract of Little Russian Rights” of 1767. Separate sections were removed from it, but the codification history was added and the sources of law that were in force in Left-Bank Ukraine were listed, and it was also supplemented with new sections, in particular, on okhokomochny (mercenary) company (horse) regiments, on the accession of some towns to Yekaterinoslav governorate , on Old Believers , settled on Ukrainian lands. Approved by the Governing Senate, the collection was sent out in the presence of what was introduced on Ukrainian lands, for practical use ^[1] .

Saxon-Magdeburg law became one of the sources of the Extract of Little Rights of 1767 and the Extract of Decrees, Instructions and Decisions of 1786, Extract of Little Rights of 1767 for the first time introduced into scientific circulation professor of the University of Kiev A. Tkach ^[2] .

The author was A. Bezborodko , a permanent member of the General Court , a Bunchuk comrade , and since 1797, Chancellor of the Russian Empire . After the introduction of the “Institution for the Establishment of Provinces 1775” into the territory of Ukraine and the new administrative-territorial division, it became necessary to create new administrative and legal acts. To this end, the Senate turned to the “Extract of Little Russian Rights” of 1767 and on its basis tried to combine the legislation in force in Ukraine and regulatory legal acts ^[2] .

In a collection of 1786, an analysis was made of the sources of Saxon-Magdeburg law, in particular the contents of the “Book of the Mirror of Saxons or Saxon and Magdeburg Law” and “Civil Rights Order”, which were translated into Russian in 1732 - 1735. Also analyzed are the works of B. Groitsky and other sources of Saxon-Magdeburg law ^[3] .