Certain aspects of the formation of legislation on responsibility for driving to suicide in the pre-revolutionary period

Purpose of research. Establishing the features of the determinism of phenomena and events is the key to their effective study. An important role in this is played by the possibility of referring to the corresponding historical process at its individual stages, which predetermines the relevance of the issue we are studying. Despite its study in the legal literature, we note that a significant part of the relevant problems remains unresolved. In this article, we attempt to partially eliminate an existing gap. Results. A brief analysis of certain aspects of the formation of legislation on liability for bringing to suicide in the pre-revolutionary period allows us to formulate the following conclusions. 1. The first attempt to consolidate the composition of committing suicide in domestic law can be called the regulation in the Criminal and Correctional Penalties Code of 1845 of responsibility for incitement and aiding suicide as participation in committing suicide by a person, providing assistive devices or otherwise. The fact of material or other dependence of a person who committed suicide under the influence of a person with power over the latter was emphasized. 2. The criminalization of criminal punishment for committing suicide in the historical process of the development of domestic legislation was caused by many factors, ranging from pluralism of approaches in understanding the essence of criminal suicide and ending with socio-economic processes in a given period. 3. In total, within the framework of the formation of the institute under consideration, the following stages of the pre-revolutionary period can be distinguished, which have specific features in the field of the institute under study: - pre-Christian (before 988); - feudal fragmentation (X - XVI centuries); - a centralized state (XVI century - early XVIII century); - imperial (beginning of the XVIII century. - 1917).

suicide, inciting to suicide, history of law