Law in Social Regulative System of Pre-State Societies
The article discusses the problem of origin and existence of legal elements in social regulative systems of ancient and contemporary pre-state societies. It describes in a general way the most typical features of such social regulative systems and points out possible steps and conditions of their formation and historical evolution. The article specifically focuses on identification of legal elements among other components of pre-state social regulative systems. On the basis of ethnological and anthropological data the author estimates possible ways for historical development of rules of law.