Bezgin, V.B. Property crimes among the peasants: between the law and the custom.

Abstract: The author evaluates customary legal views of the Russian peasants towards property crimes, includes the analysis of most popular types of such crimes in the village. He establishes the principles of peasant justice, types of punishment used by the volost courts. He establishes the norms of customary law and official legislation and their role in establishing the punishment for offences. Keywords: jurisprudence, law, community, theft, horse theft, crime, court, punishment