Peculiarities of the Composition of Criminal Acts against Family Rights under the Criminal Code of 1903

The paper elucidates how the Criminal Code of 1903 regulated the protection of marriage, marriage celebration, family, childhood and other issues of family relations. The author demonstrates when and under what circumstances the concept of corpus delicti appeared in the domestic doctrine of criminal law and explains the essence of the concept. The paper provides a review of the composition of criminal acts committed against family rights under the Criminal Code of 1903 and presents their gradation by severity and classification by the object of encroachment. The author outlines the range of subjects of the criminal acts under consideration and describes the features of their status. Applying legal techniques, the author determines the peculiarity of the subjective side of the persons committing the acts under examination. In addition, the paper describes the forms and methods of committing criminal acts against family rights under the Criminal Code of 1903, analyzes the object of encroachments, discloses the peculiarities of the status of the victims. The resources summarized in the paper give аn idea of what, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the understanding of criminal law protection of the interests of the family and the rights of its members and family relations was, what acts seemed socially dangerous and to what extent.