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Russkij tekst (original Russian text).
Criminal Code of the RSFSR
with changes
up to 1 October 1934
CHAPTER NINE
Crimes, being holdovers from patriarchal society.
194. Receiving property compensation, paid by a killer, his relatives, clansmen, or clan to parents, clansmen, or the clan of the person killed, as redemption, freeing from vengeance or legal prosecution, shall be punishable by --
a fine no more than twice the amount of the compensation received.
195. Refusal of members of the clan of a person killed, from reconciliation with the killer and his clan in a manner established by local regulation or a peace settlement, or likewise hindering a reconciliation --
exile beyond the borders of the given locality, with or without confiscation of part of property.
196. Payment of bride-price ("kalyma" -- a non-Russian term) by the bridegroom, his parents, kinsmen, or in-laws to the parents, kinsmen, or in-laws of the bride, with money, livestock, or other property, or personal labor [?] --
* 197. Compelling a woman to enter into a marriage or intor continuation of marital cohabitation, or likewise kidnaping her for entry into marriage--
deprivation of liberty for a term up to two years.
Note: Perpetrating, in conjunction with this, a rape of the same woman is punishable by measures, set out in Articles 154 or 153 of this code.
198. Entering into marriage with a person who has not reached the age of marriage --
deprivation of freedom for a term up to two years.
Entering into marriage with a person who has not reached sexual maturity, or compelling to enter into such a marriage--
measures, set out in Art. 151 of this code.
199. Bigamy or polygamy--
corrective labor for a term up to one year or a fine up to one thousand rubles..
Note: The effect of criminal laws concerning bigamy and polygamy shall not extend to cohabitation in marriages, concluded before the publication of these laws.
200. The arbitrary seizure of livestock or other property ("baranta" -- a non-Russian word), without taking possession of it, solely for the purpose of coercing the victim or his kinsmen to give satisfaction for an insult or to compensate for a property loss [they] caused--
corrective labor for a term up to six months or a fine up to five hundred rubles.
The same action in the presence of firearms--
deprivation of liberty for a term up to one year.
The same action, carried out by a group of armed kinsmen, in relation to the organizers, inciters, and leaders--
deprivation of liberty for a term up to three years.
For other participants--
deprivation of liberty for a term up to one year.
201. Assault on a person, family, clan, or tribe, on dwellings or places of habitation, organized with the participation of a large number of kinsmen or tribesmen, for clan or tribal hostility, with respect to the organizers and leaders--
deprivation of liberty for a term up to one year.
202. Violence, caused to someone at the time of a disturbance (Arts. 200 and 201): homicide, bodily injury, assault, etc. shall be punishable as the same crimes to which the violence corresponds..
203. Assumption of judicial powers by issuing decisions according to the custom of the aboriginal population ("adat" [a non-Russian word], and suchlike), and violation of the principles of Soviet law using the dependence of the [two] sides, flowing from relationships in patriarchal life--
corrective labor for a term up to one year or a fine up to one thousand rubles.
204. Compulsory assessment of taxes for popular religious goals, with open use of the dependency of the payers, flowing from relationships in patriarchal life,--
corrective labor for a term up to six months or a fine up to one thousand rubles.
205. The effect of this chapter shall extend to those autonomous republics, autonomous provinces and other locations in the RSFSR, where socially-dangerous activities, enumerated in Chapter 10, among nationalities living in the given territory, are survivals of patriarchal society..
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