Kievan Rus' law

legal code of Yaroslav the Wise

16th-century codification of legislation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

A kholop (Ukrainian and Russian холо́п; , ) was a type of feudal serf in Kievan Rus' from the 9th to early 12th centuries. The legal status of kholops in the 16th-century Tsardom of Russia was essentially the same as slaves.

medieval Russian system of succession

collections of church and secular law

Izgoi is a term that is found in medieval Kievan Rus'. In primary documents, it indicated orphans who were protected by the church. In historiographic writing on the period, the term was meant as a prince in Kievan Rus' who was excluded from succession to the Kievan throne because his father had not held the throne before, as exemplified by Yaroslav the Wise's two youngest sons becoming izgoi.

Legal system in Kievan Rus'