Fixed years () was the term used in Russian documents for the
statute of limitations
A statute of limitations, known in civil law systems as a prescriptive period, is a law passed by a legislative body to set the maximum time after an event within which legal proceedings may be initiated. ("Time for commencing proceedings") In ...
during which a run-away serf could be sought out and returned to his landlord. They were fixed at five years by an ukaz (decree) of
Tsar Fedor Ivanovich issued on November 24, 1597. They were done away with as part of the
Ulozhenie of 1649, where there was no limit on the time a serf could be sought out and returned to his estate.
[See Chapter Eight of Ruslan Skrynikov's Boris Godunov: Zapovednye i urochnye rody Tsara Fedora Ioanovicha." (Moscow: Nauka, 1978).]
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George's Day in Autumn
George's Day in Autumn, or Saint George's Day (russian: Егорий Осенний, Yegoriy Osenniy, George's Day in Autumn, or russian: Юрьев день, Yuriev den, George's Day; sr, / ) is one of two feasts of Saint George, celebrat ...
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Serfdom
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