THE EVOLUTION OF LEGAL RIGHTS FOREIGNERS MARY-ISKIYE EDGE IN THE XVIII CENTURY
The article is devoted to the analysis of the legal rights of the people living in the Mari region in the legislation of the Russian state in the XVIII century. This allows to form the idea about the legal and other rights of the people of the Mari region, who were fell under the influence of the Russian legislation, which was introduced after the accession of the territory of the Middle Volga to the Russian state in the middle of the XVI century. The justice of Mari peasants, the role of the customary law in the form of the law-making community and its institutions were investigated.