%0 Book
%T Fundamental principles of Mongolian law
%A Riasanovsky, Valentin Aleksandrovich
%D 1937
%I K. Paul, Trench, Trnbner & Co., Ltd.
%C London
%G English
%F ah01-005
%O [by] Aleksandrovich Valentin Riasanovsky
%O Includes bibliography
%X This is a scholarly historical-ethnographic analysis of the major records of Mongol Law, extending from earliest accounts of the Great Mongol Empire to the period of Autonomous Outer Mongolia (1911-1924). Additional information on the period 1924-1936 is given in the Introduction. The contents of the Great Yassa (Yassak) of Chinggis Khan and his Maxims, the Tsaadjin-Bichik, the Mongol Oirat Regulations of 1640 with subsequent modifications, the Khalkha-Djirom, the Codes of 1789, 1815, etc. are discussed in detail as stages in the evolution of Mongol society, with special emphasis on the basic cultural institutions of the Northern Mongols (Khalkha), Oirat, Buryat, and Kalmyk. The author attempts to determine what elements of Mongol Law were derived from custom, from decree or outside influences, examining in the latter connection the reciprocal influences of Chinese-Mongolian and Mongolian-Russian legal concepts and institutions. Treatment of the materials studied tends to be somewhat diffuse. An extensive bibliography is supplied throughout the text and at the end of the book.
%K Mongols
%K Law/Mongols
%K History
%K Mongolia
%K Legal norms
%K Offenses and sanctions
%9 bibliographic
%U https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=ah01-005
%[ 2022-06-28