Sokolskaya, L.V. Reception as a historical form of legal acculturation

Abstract: The article provides the study of reception as a historical form of legal acculturation. The legal acculturation is recognized as a lasting contact among the legal cultures of various societies, using various means and methods of influence depending on the historical conditions. Its necessary result includes changes in the previously existing structures in the contacting cultures and the formation of a unified legal area. Depending on the specific cultural and historical conditions the following forms of legal acculturation are recognized: reception, expansion, assimilation, integration, convergence, etc. The legal reception is most well-studied form of legal acculturation, it is a historic form of legal acculturation recognized as an unilateral voluntary process of transferring the element of legal culture of a donating society and their obligatory acceptance by the receiving society. The ruling elite of the receiving subject initiates reception in order to adopt the legal system of the donating state in whole or in part into the receiving state .The result of reception is partial adoption of the cultural legal traditions, ideas, and values of the donating society by the receiving society, while the receiving society preserves its national specific features. The legal reception as a form of legal acculturation possesses the generic characteristics of the latter, while having a number of significant specific features.

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