Development of Justice Authority Systems in Little Russia and Sloboda Ukraine as a Means of Their Integration into Russia in the Second Half of the 17th to the First Half of the 18th Century

The subject of this study is the bodies of justice that operated in the second half of the 17th and the first half of the 18th centuries in the Little Russia and Slobodskaya Ukraine. The novelty of the study lies in the author’s the desire to cover the variety of forms of administration of justice used to regulate social relations and integrate areas. The author substantiated the idea that the supreme power successfully used the provision of jurisdiction to the Cossack bodies in order not only to maintain the effectiveness of local justice systems, but also to consistently unify them.