There is a consideration of genesis and specificity of one of the historically known varieties of law. That is jus puniendi (archaic law) on the pre-state stage of development of society and human civilization in legal, anthropological and cultural aspects. A critical analysis of some of the most common legal science’ point of view and approach to the description and explanation of this form of normative regulation of human behavior are shown and presented. Conclusions both as the causes and the conditions of emergence and as socio-legal nature of this type of law are formulated. The author differentiates this type of law from customary law and offers to name it not a rudimentary or primitive law, but jus puniendi of primitive pre-state era. It is concluded that the system of prohibitions-taboo was not only one of the conditions of functioning of the emerging social system, but also the key to man´s passage from a natural state to social and punitive law has become an element of the emergence of legal culture and the emergence of the latter marked the border between an animal herd and a human society.
origin of law, archaic law, the genesis of law, legal anthropology, jus puniendi, primitive society, mono rules.
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