Legal Encyclopedia. The letter C

Stoglav 1551

- A source of ecclesiastical law.

He was adopted in May 1551 at the Church Council in Moscow, he presided over by Ivan IV.

AS includes 100 chapters. His edition is divided into: large, medium, and short. Sources S .:

1. Bible;
2. Church statutes;
3. other liturgical books;
4. various canonical collections;
5. moralizing and historical collections. S. 1551 had two main parts:

1) dedicated to the management of the church

Affairs;

VS against the church and its property were fixed:

1) the integrity of the church

property;

2) the exclusive jurisdiction of the clergy

ecclesiastical court;

3) to unify the church rituals and

fee;

4) regulations internal life.

In family relationships regulatory S. 1551 was based on customary law.

By S. legal effects had only a church marriage.

For marriage required the consent of a parent or guardian, except in cases when these persons were in captivity, were irresponsible or missing. The marriage age was established 15 years for men and 12 years for women.

When the marriage was to be made parties to the contract (agreement, vault). Its shape - a notary, and its non-compliance entailed judicial responsibility of the offender and the payment of a penalty.

A law is considered for one person only 3 marriages. At the same time the church wedding was only possible at the time of his first marriage and the second and third - blessed.

In addition to parental consent to the marriage, it needed a "coronal memory", ie a dispensation of the Diocesan Bishop.

The wedding was held a parish priest.

Divorce is allowed in exceptional cases. Previously installed reasons for divorce is significantly reduced.

By S. cessation of marriage is possible in the following cases:

1) physical death;

2) adultery - the main reason for

divorce, he could only be applied for husband

to his wife;

3) prolonged absence of a spouse;

4) the inability of the husband to the marriage

or sterility of his wife;

5) a long and serious illness of spouse;

6) one of the spouses vows as a monk.

Convicted of crimes did not stop

marriage. His wife and children in this case were responsible, together with her husband.

The main principle of family relations on S. - undivided power over the wife of her husband and parents over children.

My wife has always followed the fate of her husband: a husband had the right to "lay" and give it for servile bondage to "work to feed." The husband had the right to punish his wife, if these penalties do not become self-mutilation.

Parents have the right to dispose of

marriage fate of their children, to decide the question of their vows as monks, transfer of bondage.

Features had custody of the minor children. Trustees could only be her husband's family, so the widowed mother, stayed with the children, could not be a guardian. The power of the guardian of the children continued until their maturity.

Proprietary rights of spouses are equal, but my husband could not dispose of the dowry of his wife without her consent. The couple met on debts not only common property, but in the event of the death of one of them -proper.