355 of course, stipulate that the principle of adversary procedure should guide the conduct of trials in all types of cases, but since the politically most Important categories of crime—religious and political crimes—and the worst crimes against life and property (zlodeistvo) were excepted from this legislation, one may also consider this ukaz as a confirmation of the Inquisitorial procedure’s standing in Russian legislation. This ukaz introduced a more marked differentiation between the misdeeds which were to be included in the sud category and those which were to be investigated according to the rules for the rozysk procedure, thus defining the application of inquisitorial procedure more precisely.
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