THE PLACE AND ROLE OF JUDICIAL PRECEDENT IN THE SYSTEM OF CRIMINAL LAW SOURCES IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA
The article considers the specificity of judicial precedent application in the period of judicial statutes of 1864. The characteristics of legal methodology in Russia before revolution are detected. In that period a rule of a precedent was not only a source of law but also an integral part of a criminal procedure. The study found out the place and role of a judicial precedent in the system of criminal law sources in Russia before the Revolution. The author’s conclusions are illustrated by examples of judiciary practice. It was shown that the law which regulated functioning of a judicial precedent also obliged an executor to follow the Supreme Court position in order to provide the uniformity of judiciary practice.