У статті розкрито результати дослідження положень "Прав, за якими судиться малоросійський народ" 1743 року, розроблених Кодифікаційною комісією Гетьманщини та спрямованих на охорону маєстату російського імператора в українських землях. Кримінально-правовий аналіз відповідних правових норм здійснено крізь призму об'єктивних і суб'єктивних ознак протиправних діянь, а також видів покарань, у тому числі стягнень і обмежень матеріального характеру, котрі мали застосовуватися судом до зрадників та їхніх близьких родичів. Зроблено висновки про сутнісний зв'язок положень названої правової пам'ятки з положеннями Статуту Великого князівства Литовського.
В статье рассматриваются положения "Прав, по которым судится малороссийский народ" 1743 г., разработанные Кодификационной комиссией Гетманщины и направленные на охрану маестата российского императора на украинских землях. Произведён уголовно-правовой анализ соответственных правовых норм сквозь призму объективных и субъективных признаков противоправных деяний, а также видов наказаний, в том числе взысканий и ограничений материального характера, применяемых судом к изменникам и их близким родственникам. Сделаны выводы о сущностной связи положений указанного правового документа с положениями Статута Великого княжества Литовского.
The article shows the results of the research of the provisions of the "Rights, according to which the people of Malorossia are judged" of 1743, aimed at protecing the majestat of the Russian emperor on the Ukrainian lands by the Hetman Codification Commission. The criminal and legal analysis of the relevant legal provisions was made in the light of objective and subjective features of illegal actions, as well as the types of punishment to be applied by the court to traitors, and penalties and material restrictions proposed to be imposed on them and their close relatives. The conclusions are made about the essential connection of the provisions of the mentioned legal document with the provisions of the Statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. English abstract M. Kolos The criminalization of the treason against the state and the monarch in the "Rights, according to which the people of Malorossia are judged" The article is devoted to the results of the research of criminal law provisionsof the "Rights, according to which the people of Malorossia are judged" of 1743, aimed at protecting the majestat of the Russian emperor on the Ukrainian Hetmanschyna territories in the first half of the XVIII century. The material basis of the scientific research was the legal document mentioned above, processed by scholars of V. M. Korets'kyi State and Law Institute and M. S. Hrushevskyi Institute of Ukrainian Archaeography and Source Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. During the research other sources of normative and legal and monographic content were used, in particular the Statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the wording of 1529, 1566, 1588, research papers of scholars and relevant reference books. Dogmatic analysis of the criminal law provisions, aimed at protecting the majestat of the monarch of the Russian Empire and his safety in the Hetmanschyna, enabled the researcher to conclude that the drafters of the "Rights, according to which the people ofMalorossia are judged" stipulated the territorial principle of bringing to criminal responsibility of persons, who had committed those crimes. The author reasonably proves that the theoretical basis of components of a crime consisted of objective and subjective features typical for the current criminal law legislation. He states that the examined provisions of the mentioned act contain the ideas of the Roman criminal law and acts of the Rus' and Lithuanian-Rus' states. According to the author, penalties for assault on the majestat of the Russian monarch and treason against the state were formulated by the drafters of the "Rights, according to which the people of Malorossia are judged" with account of the social value of these institutions, socially dangerous character of the analyzed crimes, personality of offender and corresponded to the historical period of development of Hetmanschyna. The author considers that a positive feature of the provisions of this act, which provided a crimin