The Origin and Formation of Quasi-judicial Institutions of Social Control as Elements of Civil Society

The article is devoted to analysing the chronological periodisation of the origin and formation of elements of quasijudicial justice in the history of the Russian state and covers the time from the early feudal forms of ancient Russian statehood to the beginning of the 20th century. The quasi-judicial institutions' elements (elements of administrative justice, the monarch's will, corporate public institutions endowed with judicial powers, elements of arbitration proceedings) are summarised. The source basis was the large normative legal systematisation of medieval law (Russian Truth (Russkaya Pravda), Judicial Code (Sudebnik) of 1497 and 1550, the Cathedral Code (Sobornoe Ulozhenie) of 1649), the systematisation of commercial law and acts of local government and self-government. Based on the analysis of the process of the emergence of quasi-judicial elements within the framework of the public administration system and the periods of its active modernisation, it is concluded that it is possible to distinguish four chronological periods of their formation; it is concluded that quasi-judicial functions are used for administrative control.