Keyword: «black sea cossack army.»

The article is devoted to the study of the legal regulation of the judicial system in the Black Sea and Caucasian linear Cossack troops in the first half of the XIX century. With the help of historical-legal and comparative-legal methods of scientific cognition, the normative material fixing the legal status of Cossack courts and judicial practice is analyzed in the work. The author comes to the conclusion that the imperfection of the judicial system in the class group under study was explained both by the presence of legal gaps in the special legislation regulating Cossack justice and by the general shortcomings of pre-reform justice.