Legal regulation of the gross land boundaries of Anna Ioannovna and Elizaveta Petrovna (historical and legal analysis)

Background. The presented article examines the legislative acts regulating the conduct of gross land surveying activities during the reign of Anna Ioanovna and Elizaveta Petrovna. The issues of legal regulation of gross land surveying in the context of land management relations of the specified period have not received special research attention in the scientific literature. The problem under consideration is represented by the works of boundary engineers of the imperial period of Russia, aimed at studying the process of surveying and the boundary part from the point of view of the organizational and technical components of this process. The relevance of this research lies in a comprehensive review and study of legislative acts in the field of legal regulation of gross land surveys in the second quarter of the first half of the 18th century – the beginning of the first quarter of the second half of the 18th century, taking into account socio-economic factors and in the context of historical facts and events of that time. The purpose of this study is to establish a range of basic legislative acts in the field of legal regulation of land management relations and land delimitation, as well as to identify on their basis the features of the development of land relations in the Russian Empire in the period from 1731 to 1754. Materials and methods. The implementation of the research objectives was achieved based on the analysis of legislative acts in the field of legal regulation of land and administrative relations. The research methodology is represented by general scientific methods of cognition, as well as methods of legal science – the historical-legal method, formal-legal and comparative-legal methods. Results. The sources of legal regulation of land delimitation are investigated and analyzed; the features of the normative consolidation of boundary legalizations characteristic of the reign of Anna Ioanovna and Elizaveta Petrovna are revealed; the key principles laid down in the legal basis for carrying out gross land boundaries of Anna Ioanovna and Elizaveta Petrovna are established and formulated. Conclusions. It is concluded that the norms of legislative acts in the field of land use are archaic, based on the boundary laws of the second half of the 17th century. They do not take into account the new order of land ownership that developed in the Petrine era, which led to the "failure" of gross land surveys.