The article deals with the some aspects of legal culture of the Ukrainian elite of the Grand Duchy of Lithuanian (henceforce – GDL) during the before Statutes period.
The beginning of the legal culture formation of the population of the GDL put effective use of standards of the land charters [«ustavnaya zemskaya gramota»] in law. They became the main sources of the presented research. The main attention is paid to the analysis of such structural elements of legal culture, as culture of legal practice and culture of legal behavior. The author notes that the legal culture of the GDL during the before Statutes period is characterized by rather good level of progress both a culture of legal behavior, and culture of legal practice. Features of the person’s legal culture are separately considered. It is thus noted that introduction of the written legislation in the GDL from the second half of the 15th century considerably influenced upon increasing of the legal culture not only the state as a whole, but also on representatives of elite (princes, landowners and service nobility) including Ukrainian.
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