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Mozdok Upper Border Court (1793–1822): Social and Gender Composition of Participants in the Process
The article examines the social and gender composition of the participants in the process in the active Mozdok Upper Border Court in 1793–1822 on the basis of the analysis of offi ce documents (report and desk registers, lists of court members,
reports on their pay, minutes, reports of members of family courts and family killings, communications, proposals, notifi cations of positions of persons and institutions, orders and decrees). The social composition of court employees was studied depending on the method of appointment to the post. It was established that the defendants in the court proceedings were both representatives of privileged and dependent classes. Forms of women's participation in court proceedings have been identifi ed. It was concluded that the inclusion in the activities of the Mozdok Upper Border Court of representatives of diff erent class and ethnodemographic groups increased the importance of this institution in the system of local judicial and administrative control in the region and acted as one of their main vectors of their incorporation into the political and legal space of the Russian Empire
in the late XVIII – early XIX centuries.
reports on their pay, minutes, reports of members of family courts and family killings, communications, proposals, notifi cations of positions of persons and institutions, orders and decrees). The social composition of court employees was studied depending on the method of appointment to the post. It was established that the defendants in the court proceedings were both representatives of privileged and dependent classes. Forms of women's participation in court proceedings have been identifi ed. It was concluded that the inclusion in the activities of the Mozdok Upper Border Court of representatives of diff erent class and ethnodemographic groups increased the importance of this institution in the system of local judicial and administrative control in the region and acted as one of their main vectors of their incorporation into the political and legal space of the Russian Empire
in the late XVIII – early XIX centuries.
Mozdok upper border court, judicial system, Mozdok, Central Caucasus, gender relations, social status