Customary legal regulation of land relations with the Komi (Zyryane) in the historical period of sharing land by the community members
The article carries the analysis of the customary legal rules governing land relations of the Komi (Zyryane) in the period of community land sharing. Making use of the works compiled by jurists, ethnographs, ethno-linguists, researches of social psychology, history of law; applying non-classical methodology as the background of the study the author has shown the genesis and evolution of the customary legal regulation. Special attention is given to the consideration of particulars of customary ethnic law applied by the Komi (Zyryane). As a result the author has singled out their legal outlook in the area of land relations as well as the ways of customary legal fixing of a land plot use with the application of agricultural labour. The novelty of the research is in the fact that it has been performed as an independent scientific study of the general science and historical legal aspects of the genesis and evolution of the customary legal governing of land relations existing in the Komi's (Zyryane's) community. In present-day Russia the results obtained in the course of the research may be applied in the modern system of land relations.