Sobornoye Ulozheniye

The Sobornoye Ulozheniye was a legal code promulgated in 1649 that comprehensively replaced the earlier legal framework of Russia. It was enacted by the Zemsky Sobor assembly under Tsar Alexis of Russia, superseding the Sudebnik of 1550 that Ivan IV had introduced. The code consolidated Russia's social classes into a hereditary system of serfdom, forbade travel between towns without documentation, granted the nobility the exclusive right to own serfs in exchange for military service, and curtailed the influence of the clergy by barring the church from acquiring further land and limiting the authority of ecclesiastical courts. It remained in force until 1832, when Mikhail Speransky revised its provisions, and it is regarded as the first systematic attempt by Russian legislators to organize legal norms by subject, marking a new stage in the development of Russian jurisprudence. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/