The article provides a historical and legal analysis of the provisions of Russian legislation on the loss of public danger by a person or an act committed by him, which formed the phenomenon of Russian criminal law, called a change in the situation. The author comes to the conclusion that the social relations associated with the loss of a person or an act of public danger committed by him are due to historical development. The first provisions are found in such normative legal acts as the Judicial Code of 1497, the Cathedral Code of 1649, the Judicial Code of 1550. The studied legislative experience contributed to the establishment of the legal nature of the change in the situation in the composition of various institutions of criminal law.
criminal law, public danger, loss of public danger, change in the situation
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